Is That All There Is?

Peggy Lee recorded a song many years ago entitled "Is That All There Is."  Today my four year old  step-great-grandson made me think of that song and its lyrics. When I gave him his snack, he said, "Is that all there is?" 

The lyrics tell the story of a person who questioned the good and the bad things in life, always asking, "Is that  all there is" to a fire….to the circus…to a lost love, and finally to death."  The last verse  reads like this:

"I know what you must be saying to yourselves.

'If that's the way she feels about it why doesn't she just end it all?'

Oh, no. Not me. I'm in no hurry for that final disappointment.

For I know just as well as I'm standing here talking to you,

when that final moment comes and I'm breathing my last breath,

I'll be saying to myself..."

Is that all there is?

Is that all there is?

If that's all there is, my friends,

Then let's keep dancing.

Let's break out the booze

And have a ball

If that's all there is.

How sad it is for me to think that in taking one's final breath one would ask 'is that all there is?'  As a Christian, it is hard for me to think of taking a final breath here on earth as a "final disappointment." I prefer thinking of it as the last stepping stone to eternal life in Heaven. 

Anyone who might stumble across this writing, asking yourself as the song does, "is that all there is" in whatever you face in life, and you want to know that it isn't, please seek the promises in God's Word, and his promise to be with us and never leave us.  I have been there, but am so humbled and grateful that I know better now since I have returned to God's fold.

For those who might scoff at this, I cannot apologize, and I leave you with this refrain from an old hymn. 

But I know whom I have believed,

and am persuaded that he is able
to keep that which I've committed
unto him against that day.

                        

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11.

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Let God's promises shine on your problems. -- Corrie Ten Boom