“Holding fast to the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.”  - Philippians 2:16 NKJV We are much filled with labor from day-to-day. The curse of Adam was that he would work

We have a tendency to describe things we do not know with things we do know. This is what we call metaphor. The Sun is like a blazing hot iron. The woman was as a beautiful as a rose. These,  of course, are simple examples that work with earthly means,