Father, where would I be were it not for Your love? It is a never-ending love. It is undeserved. And there is no way that I can ever pay You back for all You have done and continue to do for me. I am Your bond-servant – there will never be another Master for me. I am Yours and Yours alone. May Your love for me flow through me that I may love others the same way. Amen.
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Okay, right up front, I will admit, I’m weird – especially when it comes to numbers. Because I have spent a lot of my adult life in a vehicle, either driving back and forth to work or, now, as I am driving for a living, I play mental games with my odometer.
I enjoy numbers but a lot of times it has helped keep me awake and alert instead of dozing off at the wheel. (Holiday hours at Kohl’s had me getting home after midnight lots of times!)
I am always on the lookout for palindromes, i.e. numbers that are the same forwards and backward – 123,321.
I love seeing a sequential number – 123,456 or the other way 654,321.
On my late-night drives home from Kohl’s I used to see if I could add up all the numbers on the odometer from 1 to as high as they could go. I allowed myself to add and subtract numbers from each other to get the numbers I needed. And my goal was to get it all done before I clicked over the next mile! As I said, I’m weird that way!
Anyway, I was on a sub-bus yesterday, in that my bus was being serviced, and the odometer read over 200,000 miles but the last four digits coincided with years in my life – the 1960s and up. Of course, I can’t see every number with watching kids and most importantly the road! But I saw the year I became a senior in high school, the year I got married, the year Massey was born, etc.
So why am I writing about this? Just as those miles ticked away with every passing mile, so do the years of our lives. This coming autumn it will be 40 years since I began my senior year in high school! This summer Karen and I will celebrate 34 years of marital bliss. Massey is already 27! Time flies! And there is no way to slow it down or stop it…unless we stop…permanently, and that is just our bodies, for our souls are eternal!
Life is far to short for us to let it slip through our fingers. How much time do we invest in what we think is important but, in the end, we realize it was a waste? How many times do we catch ourselves wishing away the time we have because we can’t wait for the weekend? How many years are wasted holding grudges and allowing bitterness to eat away at us when reconciliation would be such a blessing?
Today is what we make it.
Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air]. James 4:14 (AMP)
Lord Jesus, help us to sort out what is important in life from what is not. May we not waste time on anger and bitterness when love is what will last…forever! Amen!
Feb 25th, 2020, Tues, 12:35 pm
