I suppose I should explain the title of this blog.
Fruit flies live for approximately 30 days. This seems like a ridiculously small amount of time to us, but what do our life spans look like from God's perspective?
Yet we can still praise and honor God with our lives, as short and insignificant as they are. We can still decide to follow Jesus and become a disciple of him, giving him our everything.
Wow, what a great example! Human life is short from God's perspective, but we should make the most of the time He's given us. Short, yes. Meaningless, no.
ReplyDeleteMost people never really understand that. I like how you you put our lives into God's perspective. We can relate to fruit flies. They are small and don't live long. But to God, we are small and our lives our short, but he still loves us. Great idea with the fruit flies!
ReplyDeleteSo True! We need to remember that none of what we have on earth is ours but Gods! Nothing we treasure on this earth will last forever!
ReplyDeleteYeah it's hard for people to come to grips with the fact that their lives are so short. And their life could end in the blink of an eye.
ReplyDeleteI love this title. what you say here is so true. To God our lives last about a second, and we want to praise him for that second and give him our time and all of us.
ReplyDelete-N.Jeezy
Sydney,
ReplyDeleteThis is a great example. God's perspective of our lives is just like our perspective of a life of a fruitfly. They complete a lot in there lives, so when you really think about it are you doing the right things to get what you need to get done on this Earth or are you doing the opposite.
Caleb Kroft
first of all i didnt know that fruit flies aonly live for 30 days. maybe they should back off the fruits. But anyways thats cool to think about that to us fruit flies are those little tiny creatures and they dont live for long. just as we are little tiny creatures to God that our lives just look like a spec here on earth.
ReplyDeleteGreat title, it says a lot about about how God probably looks at our lives.
ReplyDelete-Logan N.
it is so easy to say our lives are meaningless, but why not use the short time we have for God?
ReplyDeleteThis is right on! It is so true that our lives are short from how God looks at them and that we should do something with them for God.
ReplyDeleteI love your connection with our lives to fruit flys! That's genius! :) I often don't realize how short my life really is in God's eyes. This is a great reminder that I need to do everything I can for Him in the short time I have. I love your blog Sydney! You did a great job!
ReplyDelete-Kathryn Franklin
I loved that you used the illustration as fruit flies, I also liked that you tied together the thought about how they live for such a short time and so are our lives and we should live them with passion.
ReplyDeleteCreative and Memorable. It really relates to out lives and does it in an unexpected way. Awesome.
ReplyDelete-Ben Flick
I love how you can take anything in the world and relate it to something that has to do with us individually or us as a whole. I love your idea with using fruit flies and applying it to our lives.. Amazing job once again!!
ReplyDeleteA never knew that fruit flies only lived for 30 days, and how our lives seam just as short in Gods eyes. Knowing this makes me wonder how much I could accomplish for Christ during my lifetime? Life really is not as long as we all think it is, but we should live it to the fullest for God!!!
ReplyDeleteI have never thought about it like that. To God our lives must seem really insignificant in relation to the big picture, but he still cares for us. This is a great picture of that.
ReplyDeleteGlad you explained this, Sydney. Have to admit I was a little confused at first.
ReplyDeleteThe things we do in our lifetime means so much and we have so little time to make the most of it. This is a great example to show how short our lives really are. Sam Rykard
ReplyDeleteThat is so true. The fruit fly gives us such a perfect example that we have short lives that can really hardly ever be remembered by anyone in the end no matter how significant or insignificant it was, but as we all know the most significant part of our lives should for Jesus Christ. Jeremy Hoover.
ReplyDeleteI never really thought of it like that. Our lives are so short in God's eyes, we should really live them to the fullest for Christ!
ReplyDeleteLogan Choka
I agree with you on how we have a short time on earth compared to how long God is king. I even have something like it on my picture, I depicted it as a sunset. When I think of short I don't usually think of flies because they just keep buzzing around my head and I think "Will they ever just die!" but I guess I don't think very much. This blog makes me think which is a good thing.
ReplyDelete-Christopher Bailey
Wow! It's true how sometimes we care so much about our lives, and we try to plan our future, and to hopefully live a long life. But if we think about it, our lives are short and timed. I agree with you when you say that we should use our short lives to honor and praise God.
ReplyDelete-Barbara Sesma