Good Morning Friends,
“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.
Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro: He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps
up wealth, not knowing who will get it.
But now, Lord, what do I look for?
My hope is in you.” (Psalm 39:4-6)
Do you ever feel like life is just flying by
so quickly -- too quickly? You’re
certainly not alone in that feeling!
When we are young it seems like time passes
so slowly. We long for the school year
to be over so that we can enjoy the summer, but school seems to last
forever. We long to move from grade
school to junior high, from junior high to high school, and out of high school
altogether. But each segment of our life
seems to go on forever.
But as we age the passage of time takes on a
different perspective for us. The more
years that we accumulate in our lives, the faster the years roll by. In the blink of an eye we’ve moved from one
year to the next and the years begin to pass as in a blur.
David felt it, too and speaks about that
feeling in Psalm 39. He has come to
realize how short life is and how quickly it passes. Two things come to mind as David considers
life’s brevity:
He longs to make his life count. He realizes that too many people spend their
lives in pursuits that ultimately don’t matter.
“He bustles about, but only in vain.”
The pursuit of wealth and possessions consumes many lives and in the end
that pursuit means nothing. David wanted
his life to count for something more – something that will last. He turned to God for the wisdom of what a
worthwhile pursuit in his life would be.
He turned to the Lord for his hope in the
midst of a fleeting life. “My hope is in
you.” There isn’t anywhere else to
turn! Though life may be fleeting, the
Lord will endure and if our hope is placed in Him, then we’ll endure, too!
Ultimately both of David’s thoughts boil down
to the same conclusion. We can only make
our lives count by giving them to the Lord and our only hope is in the same
place.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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