Quit being fashioned after this system of things, but be transformed by making your mind over, that you may prove to yourselves the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.—Rom. 12:2.
If the resurrection hope is real to us, it can shape our attitude about life. (Rom. 14:7, 8) Many people are in a frantic rush to gratify every desire, every ambition, every impulse. Because they view life as being short, they seem almost desperate in their pursuit of pleasure, and if they have a form of worship, it certainly does not harmonize with the “perfect will of God.” True, life is short. “It must quickly pass by, and away we fly.” (Ps. 90:10) Humans come and go like green grass, like a passing shadow, like an exhalation. (Ps. 103:15; 144:3, 4) But God did not purpose that we spend a few decades growing up and gaining some wisdom and experience, only to spend the next few decades breaking down and descending into illness and death. w07 5/15 2:16, 17
