Time is a funny thing.
I realized that, this last week.
I have 51 more days until I move to Hawaii, and 54 until I marry the man I deeply love and start our life together.
For the sake of excitement for upcoming plans.. I am wishing my time away. I [and he as well, as we've talked about this] would love for this next month to fly by, for us to miss the next month and simply go to the next, for it to simply be the time to be together again.
But it's not that way for everybody.
I had a friend drop by this week, who informed me that her grandma was recently hospitalized and given another 1-2 months to live.
For the sake of loss, they are soaking up every moment they have. Thinking about what really matters, calculating how to spend every second, to put first what's most important, and forget those that aren't so important.
Time is a funny thing.
I truly do believe most of us live each day as if we're invincible. Or at least, we don't live with the end in sight. Life is precious, and fleeting.
The bible has a lot to say about our lives, and the days we live.
Here's a few, just to give you a glimpse:
"So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." Psalm 90:12
"Do not boast about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring" Proverbs 27:1
"Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow" Psalm 144:4
Behold, you have my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath!" Psalm 39:5
And that just scratches the surface of the biblical texts that talk about the span of our lives.
This makes me regret my every wish of wishing each day would pass by without me noticing.
I may only have today. If I only have today, would I be okay with how I lived today?
Psalms 118:24 says, "This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."
Every day is a gift from God, and should be treated so. He literally is the reason that you and I are breathing right now. Will we choose to use that breath to wish excited time away, or to take each breath to praise God and live for His glory?
It's not wrong to be excited about upcoming events.. But when you put things into perspective I think it shows us how much we should simply cherish every moment of every day that we have.
From a standpoint of a relationship with God, and evangelism, Ephesians 5:15-16 says,
"Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is."
We should be walking in step with the Lord, each and every day. So many people say that they will get right with God when they're older, that they want to live their life how they want to live it now.. But this just shows how silly that is. We don't control how much time we have, God says our life is a breath before Him. We don't have time to wait to get right with God, all we may have is this day, this hour, this moment.
So, rejoice in this day! God has made this day, has given you this day as a gift.
It's not necessarily about how much time you have.. Because we don't know and can't choose.. It's about how we're spending our time that counts.
