"Man's Vanity"

"When Thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah." (Psalms 39:11) "Surely every man is vanity"; what a concept! It's all about me, so the man thinks; that is until it is about his iniquity, then he wants nothing to do with himself. All that we are, and everything that we own is so short lived, yet we pour so much of our lives into that which fades away; surely there is no hope in this world or in the flesh, yet we continue to hold onto that which is fading quickly away, as if to squeeze every last once of pleasure out of it. It is surely a pity when we live for riches and beauty, because they are so temporal, and we are never satisfied by either one of them; yet we all have a certain character that wants something more or something better; just as Eve, when she saw that the fruit was good to eat, pleasant to the eye, and desired to make one wise, took and did eat of it, thinking that it would be good for her and her husband; when in reality, it was the worse thing that she could have done. We only have a short time here and all that we do to please ourselves is consumed almost instantly, almost before we can actually enjoy whatever it is, it is fading away or gone all together. But God, He does not change; God is the only thing that we can put our trust in; He is our only hope for real security and comfort; He is our All in All, and there is nothing that compares to the riches and beauty that are found in Him, right here, and right now... "O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things in the life of my spirit: so wilt Thou recover me, and make me to live. Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but Thou hast in love to my soul delivered me from the pit of corruption: for Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back. For the grave cannot praise Thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known Thy truth." (Isaiah 38:16-18)