So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
(Psalms 90:12)
Today is June 21st which is the first day of summer. Summer officially began at 4:49 a.m. E.S.T. For those of you who live in this area, you know it has felt like the heart of summer for over a month with higher than normal temperatures and higher humidity. This being the first day of summer, today is the longest day of the year. In Anchorage, Alaska today will have approximately 22 hours of Sunlight. My family and I took a trip there a few years ago and actually went white water rafting at midnight and finished around 2:30 a.m. and there was still light. We were able to do more things later because the days were longer. That is a spiritual reminder to the meaning of the words of Jesus in John 9:4, I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
One day when you get older, you most likely will look back on your life and wish you had done many things you did not do. You probably will also look back at things that seemed important at the time which you will realize that they were not important and that you had done things differently.
An old Chinese proverb tells us to make the most of each day of our lives, for they may not be many. The King James Version of the Bible teaches us to number our days. That means to make every day count. When today is over at midnight, it will never return again. Each day is a new day and we should make it count for the Lord. As I have heard it said most of my life, “Only what done for Christ will last.
One of the many stanza of a poem by C.T. Studd titled “Only One Life, Twill Soon Be Past” reads . . .
Only one life, yes only one,
Now let me say,”Thy will be done”;
And when at last I’ll hear the call,
I know I’ll say “twas worth it all”;
Only one life,’twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
Bro Larry
