It’s Friday…Go Ahead and Choose A Time

Do you ever wonder or ever asked how long you have left to live? Who hasn’t? It’s a sobering question for this sobering reason: We don’t know the answer. We can’t know unless God has given us some peculiar revelation that most of us will never receive.

Whether we’ve just been given a clean bill of health or diagnosed with a terminal disease, we still don’t know how long we have in this world. The diagnoses of doctors are always subject to human error. Only God knows the day of our passage out of this earthly tent.

Many people would prefer not to consider such questions. They are too morbid, perhaps. But David in the Psalms did, he wanted to know. And so he asks God:

“Show me, O LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life.” (Psalm 39:4)

David actually asked God to show him, to remind him of how transient his life is. No, he isn’t necessarily asking to know the date of his death. But he asked with a sense of urgency that reflects the reality of our short lives. He wants to make every moment count.

So should we. Far from being a morbid thought, understanding the brevity of our earthly life will bring us a sense of focus like nothing else will. We will begin to strive for what is important to God and forsake whatever isn’t. We will arrange our priorities to match the Lord’s.

Ask anyone who has been given only a short time to live. They understand how life’s uncertainty can lead to a remarkable shift in values.

Do we want that kind of focus? Let’s not wait for a doctor’s diagnosis. Go Ahead And Choose A Time. What length would give you a proper perspective and help you live with God-size priorities? A year? Five years? Six months? You decide. Then go ahead and live as though you have only a year left, or however much time you’ve chosen.

Starting today, let’s assume, for example, that God will take you home one year from now. Watch your priorities change. Watch your relationship with God and with others transform. Let’s live our lives in the light of eternity and really grasp  the life God has given us.

Have an amazing weekend. Make it better by worshiping The Lord with those who have made the choice to seek first His Kingdom and Righteousness because those things will last forever.

All For Jesus – Nothing More, Nothing Less, Nothing Else.

“He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, The King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see, to Him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.” (1 Timothy 6:15b-16)