by Gary Zalben

Created on: March 27, 2009

Have you even lived even one year during you lif-span on earth? How many of you can say you have even lived at least one year so far in your lifespan no matter what your age. If we theorize a lifetime of seventy-five years, lets assume its safe to say that thirty-seven of those years are spent in sleep, seeking bodily comforts and eating. Another eighteen years are committed to making a living and keeping the wolf from your door. Of the remaining twenty or so years it is not uncommon for those householders to waist two-thirds of that precious time in fruit-less activities, fraternizing, indulging in idle or frivolous pursuits and gossiping. Only eight or ten years of our lifetime may be left; how many do you think use that time to seek or think of God? Do you think a few minutes that are left in the evening which are meagerly set-aside to parrot up the Lord's Prayer or ask for some desired advantage, act of grace or favor while the mind is desiring to sleep and longing to get this obligatory moment of devotion finished with as soon as possible is time spent really living? Oh Lord, could you please take care of my family and me; I do now have to go to sleep. Those few moments of time with God is practically nil. Yet these same people expect to at the time of their death to enter the everlasting heavenly life in the kingdom of God. Good luck.

The rigidly unconvinced sense-oriented body-identified person is unwilling to forgo his known pleasure for the hidden joy of spirit. Before man is ready to use his free will to desire God over everything else, he must undergo many learning experiences. The schoolhouse called earth will in the meantime be the teacher until he passes all examinations in how to discriminate and decide between the liberating examples of God or the delusive examples of delusion.

Just as the physically deceased are dead the spiritually dead are just as dead and don't know it. The physically dead who have crossed over the abyss of death while losing their physical forms and lives can not awaken themselves to the truth-teachings of the prophets. The spiritually dead are to be more pitied than the physically dead. The master tells us the spiritually dead can hardly be pardoned or excused for making themselves deliberately comatose to the emancipating truth and life-giving message brought to them by the prophets.

Man's days are fraught with life's terrible uncertainties and one never knows when disease, financial failure, accident or other disaster may

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