Teach us to number our days, that we
may gain a heart of wisdom. Psalm
90:12 NIV
Good advice—but some
days I just get tired of counting. How many days is enough?
As much evil as
there is in our world, there’s beauty, if we only stop to look. Three score years
and ten, 100 years, 125 years, however long, it isn’t long enough to enjoy all God
has given us to enjoy.
On the other
hand, it’s more than enough. Even if life were a fairy tale and all the joyful
moments you’ve ever enjoyed could be packed into one endless day, and if all
the loved ones you ever loved could stay here at your side for that whole day, the
time we have here is more than enough.
Living in a world
of pain, watching from a decaying body that can’t maintain its youthful vigor. Watching
as our broken world goes from bad to badder to baddest.
Watching the
news, bad on bad, every day something worse: poverty and high unemployment
because our businesses—job-makers—are taxed out of business or out of the
country; crime-ridden streets; hopeless lives; powerful judges stealing power
not theirs and legislating some pretty bad laws from the bench; bad leaders
making bad deals with bad enemies, handing over power and money for little in
return; enemies who don’t fear us, allies who can’t trust us.
Yeah, but there’s
a new day comin’. And a new home.
Avi, I long for the day of Your
appearing, the day You will take us to be with You to a world we cannot imagine,
a world of endless joy and peace. Help us to endure and to overcome. And, help us
to spread the news that the tickets are free for everybody. In Your holy name,
Amen.
Grace, I agree with you! Thank God for His grace and His promises in the midst of seeming despair. He is Lord!
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