What if your banker called you tomorrow morning and told you to sit down and take out your calculator! Someone had just bequeathed you a wonderful but conditional gift. Every day, for the rest of your life, this unnamed benefactor will deposit 86,400 pennies in your checking account. Your fingers are already dancing on the keypad! That's $864 a day, 7 days/week, 52 weeks/year, until the day you die. Over $315K yearly. You are already polishing the fender of that new car! Now…did he say – conditional! Yes – you have to spend it all every day. Whatever is left of those 86,400 pennies at midnight, is just gone! You think to yourself – no problem! Well, let's be a little more realistic! Every day, for the rest of your life, you are the beneficiary of 86,400 seconds posted to your account. That's 24, 60-minute hours. 7 days/week, 52 weeks/year, until the day you die. Spend them any way you can, but at the end of the day, they're gone!
A wise man once day, "Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you want, but you can only spend it once!"
Is your OT opened to Ecclesiastes 3? Let's read vv.1-15. God appoints and super-intends the moments (seasons, events) of each man's life, and only God can give them joy and purpose. Solomon, the poet of 1005 songs, dedicates a ballad to the God who orders all things under heaven: i.) 3:1-8 – We hear Solomon's ballad sung. ii.) 3:9-15 – We find Solomon's song interpreted .
Again, here is the poet's theme: God has prescribed the days of your life, and only He can enrich them! |
