What does the Bible compare our life to?
The Bible compares life to a vapor that is here one second and gone the next. It also likens it to a blade of grass that shoots up in the morning and by afternoon is withered and gone. These images emphasize life's brief, temporary nature.
Les explains that earthly, material blessings last only a short while—perhaps 70 or 80 years, or at most past 90. He points to the psalmist's image of a blade of grass that shoots up in the morning and withers by afternoon. He also uses the illustration of a vapor: in a 30-below-zero northern morning, every breath becomes a cloud of vapor, but it lasts only a moment—poof, and it's gone. That is what the Bible compares life to, like a vapor here one second and gone the next. In contrast, spiritual blessings in the heavenlies last all eternity.