So Asaph brings his questions to the Lord. He enters the sanctuary, the temple, in Jerusalem, and he tarries in the presence of the Lord. He studies the Scriptures. And he begins to understand. He came to understand that compared to eternity, time is like a penny compared to all of Bill Gate's billions of dollars.
Time is a passing flash.
Eternity is a never-ending, infinite line. And those who are genuinely wise and successful are far more concerned about the things of eternity than the things of time. As a dream when one awakes, so when you arise, O Lord, you will despise them as fantasies. It reminds us of the man Jesus talked about in the Gospels. He was a very, very successful man.