Bedside Watchman All Is Vanity

Last Updated on : October 11, 2014

The Bedside Watchman

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April 22nd - Ecc. 1

All Is Vanity

Our surroundings deceive us sometimes. The occupations of health have a tendency, in the merely secular sight, to hide from view the evils that are gnawing at the vitals of human existence. All of us are more or less liable to this blindness. But when, as occasionally happens, we see those with whom we are familiar and whom we love, drawn aside from the path of active life, and laid down in the corner to die, and ultimately deposited in the unseen place from which no human being ever emerges by nature, we are made to feel our real state, which, at its best is "vanity"; and we are enabled to see more clearly than ever, that the truth which we have set our minds upon, is the only truly valuable thing there is. Everything else is worthless in itself, however good it may appear at the time. It ultimately vanishes from sight. Men are wise or foolish in proportion as they act upon the recognition of this fact -- that the things which (now) are not seen are eternal.

Robert Roberts, Seasons of Comfort, page 216