Living in God's Glory

away. it is as if life were without a destination. stranger still is the negligence of man towards the gravest of realities. however, this is only a temporal way of looking at things. We have these feelings because we think of our final destination as being in this world, not the hereafter. it is only when, with the help of God, we change this attitude that we understand that completion, fulfilment, and happiness belong to the next life and not to this. SEEK THE ETERNAL WORLD Death is a person’s greatest compulsion. Death enters triumphantly into both the palace and hovel. Death reminds a person to rise beyond ‘today’ and to think of ‘tomorrow’—of the eternal world after death. Turtles live up to 500 years. some trees can remain standing for a thousand years. Mountains and rivers can retain their glory for millions of years. however, human life is not more than 50-100 years. Man, who appears to be the noblest and superior of all creatures, lives a concise life in comparison. What is stranger is that this short human life is nothing but a continuous story of failure. an individual’s life is so full of sorrow that the few moments of joy he experiences seem to be nothing more than an aberration or delusion. sickness, accidents, old age, dreams, and hopes are continuously trampled upon—that is what life seems like. Moreover, in