My writing this blog this morning is not in anyway intended to bring condemnation or sorrow. It is simply my personal reflection on life and I just wanted to share my heart with my friends from around the world. Please comment if God has spoken to you through what I have been thinking about lately.
What many think of as something to take for granted, time is our shared commodity. Apart from Christ, time is amongst one of the greatest gift that God has ever given to mankind. Think about it, billions of people around the world enjoy the benefit of having 24 hours in a day to do what God has planned for us to do for the time that we are on this earth. Moses wrote in Psalms 90: 10-17, where he reflected upon that precious gift called time. He writes:
“10 The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath. 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. 13 Return, O LORD! How long? And have compassion on Your servants.14 Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days! 15Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us, the years in which we have seen evil. 16 Let Your work appear to Your servants, and Your glory to their children. 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands.”
What have you been doing with your time? Do you know that your life is on a clock? Solomon says that “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2). Could it be that you are running out of time as I write this blog? The scripture says in Hebrews 9:27-28 “And as it is appointment for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 27 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.”
If you are like me, you can see that time is short. Moses said it well when he said that “…We finish our years like a sigh.” When the time comes for you to die, will you be ready to meet your maker? It is said that every human being have the same opportunities on earth. If you have not given that a thought go to the cemetery and look at the engraving on every tombstone. Sobering, I know! They all have the same engraving. The date of birth; a dash; and then the day of death (e.g. 09/21/1950 –10/23/2011). While the day of birth is important and brought joy to a mother and father as well as to other family members. The day of death, however, brings much grief and sorrow in the lives of many. Moreover, the dash in between those two dates, the memories of the time spent together can either bring more joy or more sorrow depending if the deceased lived a life that honored God.
“So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” This is my prayer for you today. Tomorrow, I will continue sharing my thoughts with you on what you can do with the remainder of the dash in your life! Until we connect again, I am praying for you! Have a blessed Monday and make a difference in someone else’s life!
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