“Like sand through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives”, familiar words for those who watched the sitcom ‘Days of Our Lives’ years ago. A panoramic view of our beginning, descent , death and decay is presented in the Bible. It is evident that as a result of man’s choices, from the first sin, our life has become fragile and slips away much the same way as sand in an hour glass.

The Evangelist highlighted the earliest activities of Lucifer as he engaged Michael in war in heaven and was cast out to earth where he has become the enemy of our soul. (2 Peter 1:4) As the great controversy rages on it behoves us to number our days (Psalm 90:12), recognise that our life is as vapour (James 4:14) and set our affection on things above (Colossians 3:2).