EARTHLY
THINGS

There are three very distinct marks of the ancient curse resting upon everything in this world. First, everything is recent. Second, everything is temporal. Third, everything is transient.…

Temporal and transient things surround us—but their curse is that they belong to us only for a brief day.…

I am sure you have watched a small child viewing a colorful circus parade. The great wagons, the clowns, the elephants, the lions and the tigers, the bands, the costumes, the spangles. Each thing excites the child—the eyes pop out and there are screams of delight. But it is passing. It is temporary. It is transient. The parade goes on down to the railroad station into its train and disappears.

And so it is with everything that the world has to offer us. Some kind of a pretty trinket. Some kind of a pleasing rattle to shake. Some kind of a pacifier for the scene in which we live.

1 Corinthians 7:31; James 4:13–14; 2 Peter 3:10–11; 1 John 2:15–17

Christ the Eternal Son, 53, 54.