Entropy is enevitable. Objects that are full of life eventually die and ultimately decay. The sun and the light and the moon and the stars will one day grow dark.
The inhabitants of every home will eventually grow aged with trembling hands and even the strongest of men will stoop. The very windows through which we peer will grow clouded and opaque with time. Doors will be closed and boarded up. In their twilight years once-proud men will become scared of famaliar places—lacking desire (ambition, vision, motivation).
In science this is called “Entropy”—energy burned up, order to chaos, fires die, the “Second Law of Thermodynamics.” In life this is called “living without hope,” and it is the net result of a life lived without much thought for the Creator and without a healthy fear of God, it is the net result of a life lived for self without much consideration for godliness.
Thus we are advised to remember our Creator in the days of our youth. But why, if the future seems dim? Because we who fear God in the days of our youth will more likely put our hope in God in the days of trouble. And in our days of trouble we will not forget our purpose in life (the chief end of man is to fear God and obey his commands) and we will discover a glimmer of hope in twilight’s darkness (an eternal home with God).
See Ecclesaistes 12 for deeper meditation on this fateful condition of mankind. I read this chapter in my personal devotions tonight and just found it to be a powerful passage of scriptures. This is my paraphrase.
