“I will be satisfied with your likeness when I awake.”

There are people who live only for today. They live as if God were not, as if God neither cared nor saw their actions, and so they live wickedly. They think only of present pleasure, and not of eternity. They think only of present comforts, and not of eternal risks. They wrap the blanket of their lives around themselves and selfishly ignore the call of God. They mock those who live for another world, hate those who challenge their comfort.

They do not understand, they do not recognize, that it is they who live within the dream, while we have chosen to wait for real life. They think we are asleep to good things, when the truth is that we have chosen the real good, the eternal good, over all temporary and elusive pleasures. “Arise, O Lord, confront him, bring him low,” cries David. Deliver us “from men of the world, whose portion is in this life.” They are full, but their fullness is imaginary. They are comfortable, but their comfort is destined to fade. They look fat, but their bellies are swollen with spiritual starvation. “As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness“–I have set my heart and my hope on what is real, and true, and pure, and good. And because of this, “I will be satisfied with your likeness when I awake.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.