months are disappearing before I even have a chance to digest what has been happening.
Do you ever get the feeling like you're always trying to catch up with things...I think that
even 24 hours has been chipped away at!
The Bible has much to say about the brevity of our lives.
Job 7:6 "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,"
Job 8:9 "For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon
earth are a shadow."
Psalms 78:39 "For He (God) remembered that they were but flesh: a wind that
passeth away, and cometh not again."
James 4:14 "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow, for what is your
life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."
None of us can say with certainty that we will be here tomorrow. We all know people
that have been taken from this earth suddenly, without any warning...and tomorrow, it
could be us. We do not know what our time table is on this earth, only the Lord knows.
What we do know is what God wants us to do should not be put off. How many times
have you felt the Lord's urging to go speak to someone, but you push it aside as something
to do tomorrow. You know of a person who is hurting, in distress, mourning...and you
put off the note of encouragement, phone call, hug. Folks, we are NOT promised tomorrow,
One quick side note here; shoving aside the Lords prompting is not only procrastination,
it is also a sin! James 4:17 "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth
it not, to him it is sin."
To you, it's a quick hug; but the recipient of that hug might feel the arms of Jesus around
them. Jesus love and compassion could be conveyed through that short note or brief
phone call. That person that needs a kind word, might be tomorrows Sunday school
teacher because of being turned around through the witness of your words. Don't use
the excuse of not enough time! In Luke 10 verse 2, Jesus told His followers, "The
harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few:" Find the time in your busy lives
to be a labourer in the Lord's harvest. We can't get back the time we've wasted; we
can't count on tomorrow; make the most of your time today...time invested in the life
of another is time well spent.
Only One Life
Only this hour is mine, Lord,
May it be used for Thee:
May every passing moment
Count for eternity.
Souls all around are dying,
Dying in sin and shame:
Help me bring them the message
Of Calvary's redemption
In Thy glorious name.
Avis B. Christiansen
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