Are you worried about the future? Do you have big plans? Do you have contingencies to fall back on? Are you waiting for something to happen before you get serious about your relationship with God? Look what the Word of God has to say about your life:
Psalms 39:4-6
4 "LORD, make me
to know my end
And what is the
extent of my days;
Let me know how
transient I am.
5 "Behold, You
have made my days as handbreadths,
(TEPHACH, a little wave of the hand)
And my lifetime as
nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at
his best is a mere breath.
Selah.
6 "Surely every
man walks about as a phantom;
Surely they make an uproar for nothing;
He amasses riches
and does not know who will gather them.
How about this one:
James 4:13-14
13 Come now, you who
say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a
year there and engage in business and make a profit."
14 Yet you do not
know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears
for a little while and then vanishes away.
Is God trying to make us depressed?! What’s the benefit to us seeing our own life as a vapor, or a puff of smoke that disappears in the wind? Look at this prayer of Moses:
Psalms 90:1-12
1 Lord, You have been
our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the
mountains were born
Or You
gave birth to the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting
to everlasting, You are God.
3 You turn man
back into dust
And say,
"Return, O children of men."
4 For a thousand
years in Your sight
Are like yesterday
when it passes by,
Or
as a watch in the night.
5 You have swept them
away like a flood, they fall asleep;
In the morning they
are like grass which sprouts anew.
6 In the morning it
flourishes and sprouts anew;
Toward evening it
fades and withers away.
(There he goes
again! We are just like the grass that
lives for a day!)
…
10 As
for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,
Or if due to
strength, eighty years,
Yet their pride is
but labor and sorrow;
For soon it is
gone and we fly away.
11 Who understands
the power of Your anger
And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?
12 So teach us to
number our days,
That we may
present to You a heart of wisdom.
There’s the whole point of God trying to make us understand how fleeting and fragile our life really is. It gives us the motivation to “number our day,” or to make each day count. We spend so much time and effort worrying and planning for tomorrow, when God tells us to live one day at a time!
Matthew 6:34
34 "So do not
worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough
trouble of its own. (Can I add an
AMEN here?)
DISCLAIMER: Please don’t read this, and then go empty out your bank account, sell your house, and spend it all today, trusting that God will take care of you tomorrow. He wants you to be a good steward of what He has blessed you with.
The point is for us to follow this command:
2 Corinthians 5:7
7 for we walk by
faith, not by sight --
God wants us to live our life, DAY BY DAY, in complete faith
and trust in Him and in His provision. For
example, before Jesus told us not to worry about tomorrow (Matt.
Matthew 6:33
33 "But seek
first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to
you.
That’s how you can stop worrying about tomorrow – to have faith in His promise!
We need to learn as believers to number our days – to make every day count towards presenting to God a heart full of wisdom.
Psalms 118:24
24 This is the day
which the LORD has made;
Let us rejoice and be
glad in it.
What did you do for Him today?