Running Out of Time
Life on earth is measured by time, and when we waste time, we waste life. We hear a lot today about the things Americans are wasting, and perhaps the half has not been told. But of all the things we waste, time is the most precious. The average person lives as though he will never run out of time, even though the Bible is filled with warnings that time for all is brief. The Psalmist said, Psalm 90:10 “ Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” Peter compared life to the grass that withers and the flowers that fall away (1Peter 1:24-25). Job dramatically pictured the brevity of life, “Man that is born of a woman is of few days and is full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down. He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.” (Job14:1, 2) James said that “life was like a vapor.”
Do you ever pause and think about how you are spending your life? Is it all invested in material things that will pass away? Are you making plans with God for death and eternity? Remember, whether we prepare or not, we all have an appointment with death (Heb. 9:27).
ELDERS CORNER
Gary Culbreath