"Show me, O Lord, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life. You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before You. Each man's life is but a breath."
Psalm 39:4-5
Have you ever been asleep in the back seat of a car? Although you're not actively doing anything, you are still in motion from one place to another. So too it is with life: from birth to the end of life, you are in motion from one point to another. Whether you choose to acknowledge this or not, it does not matter. Like gravity, it is one of the unchanging laws of life: you are born; you live; you die.
We need to live in that constant state of awareness. I watched a movie about time travel where the character went back in time to alter a little decision he had made. The changes to the future consequences of that little decision were staggering. What decisions do you put aside? What might seem important today - work, money, social standing - will seem irrelevant in years to come. The little decisions like whether to withhold a harsh word, to tell someone you love them or to choose to honour God in a decision at work will have active and accumulative consequences that you cannot see.
So how can we live, knowing that time is rushing us from birth to death and that our little decisions can have vast, unforseen consequences in our life and the world around us? There is only one way. We must live each day with God, our Creator. As well as knowing how long we have to live on earth, God also can see the ramifications of each decision we make. He can turn things around for good. He can encourage us to find the path we were designed for. All we have to do is to walk daily with Him, the Author of Life.
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