Living in God's Glory

Today, people find it difficult to deal with even the slightest indignity. however, what will their fate be in the next world when they are hungry and thirsty, and there is no food to allay hunger and no water to slake their thirst? What will they do in the blazing heat when there is no shade to take a retreat? how will they endure God’s terrible, engulfing wrath when no one can save them? if a man cannot bear being hurt by so much as a pebble today, how will he be able to bear a mountain of suffering tomorrow? THE GREATEST TEACHER: DEATH Death is the greatest teacher, but man lives through his life as if there were no such thing awaiting him at the end of life’s journey. once when Julius Caesar had to pass by a statue of alexander the Great in spain, he paused to gaze upon it and with tears coming into his eyes, he said, “in the whole of my life, i have not been able to achieve even one-tenth of the feats performed by alexander in the space of a single decade.” alexander the Great (356-323 BC), the son of the Greek King Philip, conquered significant parts of the known world of his time in a span of mere ten years. Taking up a project entertained by his father, alexander decided to attack the massive Persian Empire, marched in 334 BC into