Numbering Our Days

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“Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!” --Psalm 37:7 When I was a little guy my mother used to cook in a thing called a pressure cooker. It would literally heat from the pressure within. And she would cook beans particularly in there. Every now and then this thing would start whistling and rattling, and suddenly there was an explosion! I would hear my mother scream, and I’d walk in and there were green beans all over the ceiling because that thing just finally blew up. That’s what can happen to us when we worry and fret. Strife and stress is a way of life for so many people today including Christians. Yes, Christians fight this battle over stress as well. The thing is, it doesn’t accomplish anything in your life. It will rob you of peace and joy and happiness and laughter. It will take away relationships. It can rob you of your health and even your sleep. And you know what? It’s all futile and foolish. Even Jesus said that. Jesus talked a lot about dealing with worries and anxieties. He said, [Luke 12:25] “Which one of you can add to your life by worrying about it?” He said it is unprofitable for any of us to worry about anything. You can’t change things simply by worrying about them. God is good, God is gracious, God is great! And there’s nothing in your life that He can’t handle! So you trust Him, knowing that even when you fail and fall, He’s got you in the palm of His hand; He holds you.   GET THE STRIFE OUT OF YOUR LIFE BY TRUSTING IN HIM!

Numbering Our Days

Friday, February 22, 2019

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”

Psalm 90:10–12

Despite his enormous talent for writing and his skill as a political leader, George Gordon Byron was better known both during his life and after for his careless living, profligate spending, and rampant immorality. He was famously described as being “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.” Numerous debts and scandals eventually forced him to leave England, and he spent the rest of his life far from his home. In a poem composed not long before his death, at just thirty-six years of age, Lord Byron wrote:

My days are in the yellow leaf;
  The flowers and fruits of love are gone;

The worm, the canker, and the grief
  Are mine alone!

The wasting of any life is a tragedy. The wasting of the life of a believer who has been called and gifted by God to work for His Kingdom in this world is even worse. Every one of us has been given gifts and talents that are meant to be used, not buried in the ground. When we number our days, we realize that we have only a limited time to do what God has placed before us. Jesus said, “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work” (John 9:4). The reality is that none of us know what tomorrow holds. Whatever we are going to do needs to be motivated by the knowledge that there is a number to our days.

Today's Growth Principle: 

The best way to not waste your life is to not waste this very day you have been given.