April 28

Psalm 90

Someone has calculated how a typical lifespan of 70 years is spent. Here is his estimation:
Sleep 23 years 32.9%
Work 16 years 22.8%
TV 8 years 11.4%
Eating 6 years 8.6%
Travel 6 years 8.6%
Leisure 4.5 years 6.5%
Illness 4 years 5.7%
Dressing 2 years 2.8%
Religion ½ year 0.7%

Time is life--nothing more, nothing less. The way we spend our time, is the way we spend our life. In our day of Twitter, video games, HD TV and surfing the net, I believe the vast majority of Americans are wasting their lives. They are literally killing time. Moses the writer of this Psalm has spent 40 years of his life walking around in a desert, yet he used his time wisely. A location has very little to do with the correct appropriation of time, attitude has everything to do with it.

Moses wrote, “You turn men back to dust.” When we realize the temporal nature of life this should cause us to use time wisely. A few years ago a music group named Kansas sang that we are all, “dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind.” Since we are made of destructible material we should use our time wisely today.

Moses also wrote “teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”

Here are a few of the numbers of life.
25,550 70 years in days
247 days left in 2010
6570 days before your newborn graduates from high school

Every morning, we have all have one day to spend wisely. The 1,440 minutes or 86,400 seconds offer an opportunity to waste or to invest. If you want to be an investor… number your days.

Lord,
May we view all things today in the mirror of eternity.
May every moment of this day be lived with our gaze fixed on the unseen things of the universe.
Teach us to number our days today and gain a heart of wisdom.
And if today is our last day, may we live it to its fullest, and let this be the best day of our entire life.

In Jesus Name, Amen