My Birthday is this month (there is no turning back the clock!) and I have stumbled across some verses on age this week, as I’m reading through Psalms. “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom”. I really want that heart! (PSA.90: 14) “Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet, the best of them is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away...” (Psa. 90: 10)
In the next chapter (PSA. 92:14), the fruit of obediently numbering our days is given…”they will STILL bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green, proclaiming, ‘The Lord is upright; He is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in Him.’”
Numbering our days is making every day count for the cross of Christ! Our Creator, Owner, Leader, Sustainer, Savior and Successor is actively pursuing us with ministry and opportunity to reflect glory back to Him. We are called and commissioned…”For my days vanish like smoke. (James 4: 14) says ‘life is but a vapor!’”
No time to lose! Make it count!
“We do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away”! Living, knowing that your life is just a vapor is different than just living. Things here are passing away. You’ve got to hold to what will stand. Savor what matters.
Finding our delight in the eternal with a heart-longing for HIS presence is permanent. Life is short. Eternity is Long. We need to be living like it matters! We will exist forever. You and God are both in the universe to stay…either as friends on HIS terms or enemies on your terms. Two seconds and we will be gone.” (John Piper)
Time is precious. We are fragile. Life is short. Eternity is long. Eternity lives outside of time. Every minute counts! Let’s be busy…”redeeming the time”. (Eph. 5:16)
Never sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
