Vanity and other things

I think it was Shakespeare that said, "Vanity, thy name is woman."  The older I become, the more I see the truth in what he said.  Now, I don't like to think of myself as vain, but recently, when my little grandchildren asked me why my face was "cracked", and I looked in the mirror I see more wrinkles than on an elephant, I got discouraged.  My mind feels young, but the face in the mirror says, "you are old," and honestly, it has depressed me.  Who wants to look old, especially older than one feels?  So, I am torn.

As a Christian I know that I have an eternal home with Jesus, because of the price He paid for my sin.  Yet, here I sin, by becoming depressed over something really foolish.  It's all vanity. I don't want to appear old, I want to look flawlessly beautiful.  Well, I have never been beautiful, let alone flawlessly beautiful.  I'm not ugly. I'm average.  So this is vanity to me, and how silly.  Even writing it all out seems silly.

Our government is turning towards socialism, if not communism, and little o' me is worried about how old I look.  Vain? Yes.  Foolish? Yes.  As I thought on all this, and prayed for our country, I was reminded by the Lord in his word, that this world is not my home, heaven is. I am from another country.  My comfort came today from 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 "Therefore we do not lose heart.  Though outwardly we a re wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."   I may look in the mirror and see more creases and crevices than in the Grand Canyon, but I must focus on the eternal. Someday I shall have a new body that will not age nor decay.  I will be forever with my Father.

So, today, when Congress considers passing a bill that the majority of Americans do not want, and a bill that will give 1/6 th of the economy over to the government and, therefore, leads us into a socialized system of government, I can rest assured that God is in control. I should not look at what I see, but at Christ. The world that I cannot yet see, but awaits me and all believers.  Christ is our hope.

Foolish to worry?  Yes. I pray that turn all things over to my Father and let him take care of it all.

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