Dr. Hampton in English class today had the students meditating upon their mortality and how in all probability everything that they ever write will be forgotten. Most authors are. "Death wins every time." The gloom was palpable.
I responded by agreeing with him on a Solomonic-Ecclesiastes level. We know as historians that nearly all of what has been said and done in antiquity is gone. However, if the New Testament is true, our works can be remembered; God will not forget them. And their is a rumor (using Lewis' language here) that there is another world to come and what is said and done here will be manifest there and, if it is worthy, it will be part of the glory to come.
Hampton spoke of how we all desire to be remembered, even to have glory. Mankind seeks glory because mankind was made for glory. A few out of all humanity are remembered and given glory by their peers, but that glory will also be swallowed up by death. Lasting glory is only that glory shared with the One who is worthy of all glory and will receive that glory on the last day: Jesus Christ.
The students needed to be made to face the reality of the vanity of their lives "under the sun." I was glad I was able to at least mention that there is a glimmer of hope, of another destiny, if the New Testament is true. I pray they will seek out this hope.
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