I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.
~ Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 NIV
Many of us spend our lives racing through this life trying to get all that we can get. Yet no amount of money and no measure of accomplishment can exempt us from our inevitable end. The grave waits for us all. We cannot out run it or out last it. It is better to prepare for the inevitable end of life and what is to come than to spend this life in pursuit of things that will not matter in the end.