9/17/13:

TFTD: “What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” James 4:14-15

Have you ever thought about time? Not necessarily the time of day or how many hours in a day, but time in the broader sense. The average person lives around 72 years or so, but how long is that in comparison to how long the world has been around. If we agree that creation was some 6000 years or so ago a 72 year old person has lived just over 1% of the time that the world has been around. 1% isn’t very much, and when you think about it on an even broader scale to the time that God has been around it is that much more insignificant. In the book I am Not but I know I AM by Louie Giglio he makes this comparison and talks about how truly insignificant we are. He also mentions that we have one of the most significant gifts ever. First of all we have eternal life with Christ because of what He has done for us, but also we have a personal relationship with I Am. With the maker of the universe who holds all time in His hands.

            So what then is your life? Do you count it as the time for you to live hard, love hard, work hard, and play hard or do you count it as God’s gift of time to you? His gift of time that we need to use to His advantage because ultimately He has the plans laid out for us.  Am I saying that we can’t do all of those things I mentioned before because we need to leave and do mission work for the rest of our lives? No, unless that is your gift, than yes! What I am saying is that we should live our lives as good stewards of the time that God has given us and incorporate Him into all we do. Even though we are about 1% we can do our best to make that the most significant percent this world has ever seen. To quote Propaganda we have “the greatest story ever told, that’s hardly ever told” and all we have is time to tell it.

“The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God’s law and to show the nature of sin.”

 –Martin Luther