Time Is Short

Time Passes Quicker Than You Would Think
Make The Most Of The Time You Have!

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 

                                                                                (Psalm 90:10,12 KJV)

Teach us to number our days, dear Lord! Teach us to make each day count! 

So many people appear to be rejoicing that 2020 is over. For some reason they  seem to think that 2021 is going to be a much better year. Yet, the passing of another year brings us closer to that threescore and ten.

Whether our years are fruitful or not is up to us. The Lord blesses us but we often miss the blessings because we are busy pouting over minor stuff instead of rejoicing in the gifts that he has given us. 

Time passes quite quickly. One day we are young. Very soon after we are not. While we have time here on earth we ought to make good use of that time and not fritter it away feeling sorry for ourselves or wasting our days angry with others. 

Thanks be to God, Jesus the Christ came so that through his blood we might be reconciled to God and to one another. Living as though we are not reconciled to one another is a horrible way to squander away the days we have here on earth.

Let us live as children of God making the best of the days that God has given us to dwell on this earth.

God's Peace - Pr. J.

Life Is Short

Isaiah 40:8

Psalm 90:1-12 KJV

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

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We've heard it said in many ways: Life is short. Don't waste it. How many of us when we get up there in years wonder how the years have escaped us and we wonder why we weren't a bit wiser in the way we lived our lives; especially our youth?  The years have gone by quickly; too quickly. Yet, there is the promise of hope that all who believe in Jesus the Christ will not perish will have eternal life. So then all who believe never truly get old for how old can you get if you have eternal life? How old can you get if you are eternally a child of God?

Yet, life on this earth is short. Don't waste it. It is much better to live this short life with wisdom and and with justice than to seek those things that will wither away like the grass of the fields. It is wisdom to hear the word of the Lord and to truly listen to Him so that we might live life in the hope of living eternally in the presence of God our Father, through faith in Christ Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

God's Peace - Pr. J.

Changes For The Glory Of God

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.  (Psalm 90:12 KJV)

It is never too late to change. Then again, it may be too late. We can never know when the number of our days runs out and there is no more time to live life; to enjoy life. 

When the number of our days comes to an end what will we have contributed to humankind? Will we have contributed to the well being of others or have we been a detriment to the life and growth of others.

Jesus did not live and die for himself. He lived and died and lives again for the sake of humankind. He did not think about himself before he willingly sacrificed himself for us. He sole purpose was to save us from ourselves; from our own sinful ways.

So what shall we do as Christians? Shall we live solely for ourselves and our own gratification or live life to the glory of God following in Jesus' footsteps to the cross?

It is the beginning of a new year, maybe it would be wise to take stock of how we have lived our lives and maybe make a few changes that we might live life more fully in the presence of God.

Let us all pray for the wisdom of God that we might live our lives to the glory of God in thankfulness for what Jesus' has done for us. Amen.

God's Peace - Pr. J