How Much Time Do We Have?
We Don’t Know How Much Time We Have
Lord, make me to know my end, And what is the measure of my days, That I may know how frail I am. Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor.
Psalm 39:4-5 NKJV
How much time do we have? Now, don’t look at the clock. The clock can only tell what time it is, not how much time you have. There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, and 365 days in a year. That’s the same for everyone. But not everyone has the same amount of time! How much time do we have? We just don’t know.
It is true, we do not know how many seconds, minutes, hours, or days we might have left. The Bible tells us not to depend on tomorrow. In James 4:13-15 we read, “You say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” (James 4:13-15)
In your life, how much time have you wasted? How many precious opportunities have slipped away? Have you ever waited too long to share the gospel with someone? Have you ever waited too long to apologize? Have doors closed in your life that you now wish you had stepped through? Do you wish you had spent more time with loved ones who are gone? You thought you had more time, didn’t you?
Listen: live today as if it is your last, because it might be. Take your son fishing. Have a tea party with your daughter. On a clear day, watch the sun go down and then count the stars as they appear in the sky. Because that’s what God put them there for. Time is more precious than rubies and gold. Don’t waste it on stuff that can be bought and sold.
And if you have never accepted Christ as your Savior, today is the day of salvation, and today is the only day you are promised. Use it wisely. At the end of your life, don’t be caught saying, “I wish I had.” Instead, proudly say, “I’m glad I did.”
From the Bible
“Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”
James 4:13-15 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/jas.4.13-15.NKJV
Douglas & Deborah Huff
From Down Where the Pavement Ends
email-douglas@pavementendsministry.com
thank you I just lost my only surviving sister yesterday to althimers (sp) we grew up in the same house but not together like you cautioned us we don’t know how much time we have .so we need to know our family .