Vapor in Time

A guy rented out a whole movie theater for a new movie coming up that he was the Star in. He sent out invitations to several people and on the invitation he explained that the new movie was about him and he wanted all his friends and family to come and watch him in action.
As the movie was more than half way over people felt that all though it was great show their friend was nowhere to be seen in the movie, and there was no way he was the star of the show.
You see he was an extra 1 of a thousand or more that were sitting in the background in one of the scenes. He might have been on the screen for less than half a second.
You can imagine the weird looks this guy was getting as people left the theater and he asked them about his acting skills.

What was this guy thinking?

So many of us do exactly what this guy did with our own lives. No, we don’t rent out a theater and invite people to a movie that we say we were the star in, but we act like our life is the center of the universe. That the reason the earth turns is because we are breathing.

We look at the things we are doing and put them at the top of the list of importance, and then try to press that importance on the people that are around us.

We are a Vapor in time
James 4:14 (New International Version) - 14Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

In the grand scheme of history, human life is short. This verse reminds us that all of our plans and schemes amount to little more than mist or vapor when held up against the backdrop of eternity.