A Wisp of Vapor

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"whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away."
-James 4:14

Any sample of infinity, no matter how big, is a zero point when compared to the entirety of infinity. In regards to time, you can take an immense, unfathomable time period, like 1 trillion years, and if you "zoom out" far enough on that line of time even that sample of time is rendered equivalent to a zero point once you start piling on the zeroes, like 1×10 to the 360,000th power years (that's 360,000 zeroes after the one).

That makes 1 trillion years seem rather short in comparison, but that's what happens when you play with infinity.

In the Book of James, the quote I posted above talks about our individual lives being like "vapor," like what you see floating up from a hot cup of coffee. It appears and disappears in seconds. That's James' illustration to his audience on how short and even futile our lives are. When you start playing with eternity, a hundred years is nothing.

Even a trillion years is nothing. The life span of all nations, even humanity as a whole is turned into a zero point. The lifespan of the universe becomes equivalent to instants. When you think of the big picture, the BIG picture, time becomes quite insignificant, even a useless gauge, when you reckon with eternity.

When faced with the sheer scope of Creation and its God and their unceasing longevity, all of our priorities and problems in this life become quite trivial and superficial. That's a massive understatement.

It makes our problems pretty much nothing. Almost laughably nothing.

What this does for me is makes me reprioritize my thinking and my life, and put first and foremost the interests of my God. Since time really has no effect on Him and He operates outside of it and above it, serving Him is the only thing that can grant me enduring purpose and unending fulfillment.

All other priorities and purposes are insignificant and rendered null and empty compared to Him.

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