1. Everything human changes and ends.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die.” Our lives are about change, aren’t they? But aren’t you glad God never changes? Malachi 3:6 tells us that “I am the LORD, I change not.”

2. Things do not always go according to plan.

James 4:13-15 says “Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.” Have you ever made plans but had to change them?

3. Life is not always fair.

Job 14:1 “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.” Have many of you have ever had a child or grandchild say to you “…but that’s not fair!” Unfortunately, bad things do happen to good people. In the Bible both Joseph and Daniel wound up in prison even though they had done no wrong. Job is probably the best example of this certainty.

4. Pain is a part of life.

2nd Corinthians 12:7-9 Paul speaks of this truth… “And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, my grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” How many of you have pains and ailments this morning? In Revelation 21:4 John says that “…God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

5. People are not loving and loyal all the time.

In 2nd Timothy 4:10 we find Paul expressing his thoughts concerning one whom he thought was his friend. He says “For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica…” Have you ever been hurt by someone that you thought was a friend? Hard to get over isn’t it? Jesus will never forsake you. Proverbs 18:24 tells us that “there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”