Job 14:5 Since his days are determined,

and the number of his months is with you,

and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

6 look away from him and leave him alone,

that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

The days of mankind are numbered. Humans die. I will die. You will die. In the midst of his distress and on the basis of this reality, Job asked that God just leave him alone. “If life is so short,” he ponders, “why don’t you just let people go and enjoy what little time they have here.”

Have you ever thought that before? This is the doctrine of life for many people. You operate everything you do based upon this logic. The problem is that it misses something very important. Humans were created for eternity. However short our physical life on the earth may be, that is not the end. In fact, it must be just the start. The soul of man is nothing temporal. Just consider the depths of the emotions. Consider what it means to be moved by something–a sunset, the beach shore, a light snow fall when it isn’t below 0. We are beings who have been made for forever.

Made for forever and made for God.

To believe anything else is actually to cheapen what it means to be alive. It is the greatest irony invented by humans: “living it up” is actually wasting your life.