BREVITY AND FRAILTY OF LIFE

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.James 4:14

It seems as if it were only yesterday that the Lord revealed Himself to me through witnesses while I was a Navy diver onboard the USS McKee. It will have been thirty-five years in just a few weeks since I uttered my first faithful confession in the Lord Jesus Christ. I use the expression “time flies” now and then. Yet, time doesn’t fly. It dissipates and disappears like a vapor. I didn’t fulfill 20 years in the military. After a decade and a half, I received a medical discharge for too many knee injuries. I didn’t contest it, which I could have… because I considered that life is brief. Life is frail. Yet, I did know I wanted to serve the Lord with my every breath. I had no idea of my tomorrows. Not every moment was a victory. Isn’t that an interesting thought? The Lord allows us to remember our yesterdays, but tells us to trust Him for all our tomorrows. Until the Lord returns, life on this planet is frail and fleeting. To not surrender every moment into His sovereign hand is the acme of foolishness. My mission, since leaving the Navy twenty-seven years ago, has remained the same: serve the Lord Jesus Christ with my entire life. I smile at its simplistic foolishness. It has been my mission since my first confession of Christ. It is your mission too. I didn’t have to leave the Navy to serve the Lord Jesus. “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor 10:31). Mr. Spurgeon preached this long ago, “Let us put plenty of life into our existence, plenty of work into our life, plenty of heart into our work, and plenty of warmth into our heart. Oh, may God give us to live while we live! May we not only live but be all alive.” May that be your prayer and mine today.

We are but a mist appearing,
Then vanishing away;
Let’s surrender to our Savior,
Ev’ry moment of ev’ry day.

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Today's M'Cheyne Reading Schedule: 5/12 - Num 21; Psa 60-61; Isa 10:5-34; Jas 4

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