day no. 16,614: dispensing with the pleasantries

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." — Charles De Gaulle

Men honored as indispensable are buried everywhere you look, but Christ's grave remains empty.

Isaiah 2:22

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Do not put your trust in man who runs out of breath, but in Christ who outran death.

Yet, let us not dispense entirely with the pleasantries. God gives us good and godly men and we are to receive them with gratitude. We ought to respect them and honor them as the good and godly men they are in Christ. and commit our ways to following them in our character and conduct as such (1 Cor. 11:1, Php 4:9, Heb. 13:7). But we must never lose sight of the light behind the sun, the Man behind the men, the Creator behind the creation — for it is to Him, through Him, from Him, and for Him that all other things exist.