Wasting Away

Father,

Good morning, Lord.

May we wake this morning and come to a full realization that your mercies are truly new every morning. And they are extended to us without measure. They are given to us because of your deep love for us.

Father, teach us that there is so much more to life than just what is visible. Teach us what is eternal. Show us how to invest in these lives of ours so that when our days are finished the investments weighs heavy in eternity. Create a hunger in us to live our lives knowing that they are just a vapor in relation to eternity, but that this vapor is of value to you. Show us how to live this life vapor in such a way that has an impact on eternity.

These shells of ours will fail. They will become weak. They will grow old. Help us to truly embrace and understand Paul’s words: 

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.                                                      II Corinthians 4:16

 Please don’t allow us to lose heart. Increase our faith in you. Increase the faith that you will keep your promises. We are wasting away—moment by moment. And many of us do not want to admit or hear this. We declare it morbid; we are young and we don’t have to think about such. But Father, this mortal tent, is wasting away. But the promise that though the outside, the shell, is deteriorating the real us is being renewed.

Father, we are banking on this promise today. We are counting on this being the truth and reality.

Amen and amen.