The benefits of your labor, the house, the cars, money in the bank and the big screen TV, mean nothing if you don’t have Jesus Christ in your heart and ruling your life…..
These verses vividly describe both the power of death and the greater power of God. Death is the great leveler. People who have beauty, riches, and power in this world will lose them all at death. They will be stripped of everything except their character or soul. This is why the Scriptures exhort us to pursue character development—God’s law, holiness, wisdom, and knowledge—more than anything else. The psalmist trusts in God to deliver him from the power of death.
49:16 Do not be afraid when one becomes rich,
When the glory of his house is increased;
17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away;
His glory shall not descend after him.
18 Though while he lives he blesses himself
(For men will praise you when you do well for yourself),
19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never see light.
20 A man who is in honor, yet does not understand,
Is like the beasts that perish.
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