Vanishing Vapour--Eternity!

Paul Sames---14 July in the year of Our Lord 2011!
Our lives are just like a vapour that appears for a while and then vanishes.
This is how Scripture speaks of our time on earth, our lives are just so short when measured against eternity.
I said recently in a Facebook post that even if we live a 100 year span it is just a brief dash, compared to the big picture. I am now 56 years old, it seems like just the other day I was 18 years of age. I turned 18 in 1973, this was also the age that I had a life changing encounter with Jesus Christ that forever made me aware of eternity and the brevity of human life.
When I was teenager I thought 30 was ancient, I couldnt imagine even being 30 when I was 18. Now it seems like I somehow hit a high speed fast forward button and hit 56 in some kind of time warp event.
Of course I did not suffer amnesia in the intervening years between 18 to 56. I remember a kind of blur like when you fast forward a Video. I had a friend in Byron Bay who used to say "We will all be dead before we know it" ( I think he stole it off me but he said it with great expression")
This friend, Steve, would proclaim this saying with a great beaming joy, this is because he was a strong believer in the work of Jesus Christ and could act like this because he knew death for a believer is really a new beginning, in a place without tears, suffering, pain or any more death.
Many who heard him though, thought, "Is this guy crazy? Why is he talking like this? I dont want to hear about being dead before I know it! How depressing!"
This exemplifies the difference between faith and unbelief, for a true believer in Jesus, death holds no fear, in fact it will be the greatest day of all--Graduation Day! (even though we want stay here as long as we can, to face,and even enjoy earths challenges and help prepare others for eternity)
On the other hand, death is called the last enemy in Scripture. Fear of death is the greatest fear known to mankind, because we dont know what we will face. Jesus Christ came to destroy this fear and give us absolute assurance of a marvellous eternity!
Many people without faith and many religious folks are terribly afraid of death.
Lots of people try to act like it doesnt exist and so they try to sweep it under the proverbial carpet. It is not appreciated if the subject is brought up, in many circles.
Death in our modern society is treated in a similar way to how the subject of sex used to be treated in the old days, particularly in the Victorian era.
Sex was so hush hush back then that they even used to put skirts around the legs of chairs in case seeing chair legs would remind people of human sexuality. In some places they even used to put pants on horses etc. Today sex is talked about 24/7 and has become used to sell cars and most products in advertising campaigns etc. Even worse many homes have access to pornography through the internet and lots of children are exposed to what adults a generation earlier didnt even see. What would have been considered totally outrageous even 30 years ago has gone mainstream now.
It has gone from one extreme to another.

1 Corinthians 15 Amplified
25For [Christ] must be King and reign until He has put all [His] enemies under His feet.
26The last enemy to be subdued and abolished is death.

2 Tim 1 :10b Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel

What better thing than to enjoy life here as long as possible and then know that God has prepared a great home for us in eternity, if we will only have Faith in Him and His Plan. God has deposited amazing blessings in all of our spiritual accounts. All we have to do is learn to make withdrawal--its not complex either--its so simple a child can do it."
Like someone said, "The Gospel of Jesus is so simple, it takes a religious theologian to help us misunderstand it."