"How short that time is! Where are the years that David lived, and
where are those which Methuselah passed in this world? their whole
duration seems, at this distance, in the words of St. James, 'Even as
a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.'
"It will therefore be the same with me. I know not how long I shall
live here below, perhaps I shall see but a portion of this year, and
shall enter into glory before it is concluded; or perhaps I shall yet
see many more years. This the Lord knows, and I ought not to consider
that such knowledge would be of any importance to me, since that
which constitutes my _life_, is not its length or duration, but
the use which is made of it.
"It is to Jesus, then, that all my life must be devoted, without him
I can do nothing. 'My life is hid with Christ in God.' He has 'bought
me with a price,' I ought, therefore, 'to glorify God in my body, and
in my spirit, which are God's.'
"Truly to live is to know, that my thoughts and actions are all
directed to the glory of Jesus, whether upon earth by faith and hope,
or in heaven by the sight and by the glory of God.
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