This life which we have is truly only a vapor.
It is given merely as a breath,—“for a little time,”—in order to extend to us the opportunity to seize upon life indeed.
--Without this life which is but a vapor, we should have no opportunity, man himself anywhere never would have had any opportunity, to partake of life indeed.
The word that Jesus spoke, therefore, is literally true,—true in every sense,—when He spoke of Himself as “the living bread which came down from heaven,” and “giveth life unto the world.”
The word that Jesus spoke, therefore, is literally true,—true in every sense,—when He spoke of Himself as “the living bread which came down from heaven,” and “giveth life unto the world.”
For all the life that the world has to-day, is because the Lord Jesus gave Himself to receive the stroke of death that otherwise must have come upon the man at the beginning, because of the sin that he had sinned.
And, in another place, Christ Himself said: “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” A.T. Jones
