Limits.

“And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”

The Lord’s laws are absolute and inevitable; we get what we choose. If we choose to disobey God and reject the benefits of His goodness then we will have an arbitrary and random life while if we submit to God’s will and enjoy His goodness then we will experience the benefits of belonging to the God Who owns the future.

When people choose to reject God’s love they become self centred and this leads to selfishness. After a while selfish people become debased because they course of their lives leads to less and less satisfaction with the fruit of selfishness. These people then look further and harder for things to satisfy their selfishness and the cycle continues to spiral deeper and deeper. God knew that this would happen and, in grace, decided to limit the time that man would have to live in this increasingly vicious spiral. That is why God said that a man’s days would be limited to an hundred and twenty years. After that time these people would be so debased that no one would be safe.

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)