Dear SCC & Friends,
So teach us to number our days, that we may present to Thee a heart of wisdom. ~Psalm 90:12
Update #84
Technology is a two-edged sword which frees and insulates at the same time… Freeing us to get more done in less time in order to do more with the “free time” it’s created. A friend of mine used to work late on Friday evening to clean up all his e-mails only to wake up to 300 more on Monday morning. That’s a lot of stress! Getting more done in less time is called productivity, but it can have a downside. Regardless of where you live or work… from outer Mongolia to a skyscraper in downtown Manhattan… all of us get the same allotment of time… just twenty-four hours…approximately eight hours of it we need for sleep which leaves us sixteen to “get everything done”. If a person lives to be 75, they will sleep twenty-five years. No wonder Scripture emphasizes the brevity of life. Lord, make me to know my end, and what is the extent of my days, let me know how transient I am… Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. ~Ps. 39:4-5
“Tempus Fugit”… It does go fast, but in reality, time is and always has been a constant. Time is nothing else but something of eternal duration which becomes finite, measurable and transitory. ~ Law Seconds, minutes and hours have not changed. Even with all the advances of modern medicine, the average life span for a man is 76 and 81 for a woman. Three thousand years ago, King David penned Psalm 90:10, As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty years. Scripture exhorts us to redeem the time… To remember our Creator in the days of our youth, trusting His word… The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God remains forever. ~Isa. 40:8 We are sojourners, pilgrims… Here today and gone tomorrow. “My home is heaven. I am just traveling through this world.” ~Billy Graham Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. ~1 Cor. 15:51-52 Our times are in His hands, and our best days are yet ahead. Keep up the good work!
Unto the King Eternal,
Kevin