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Life Is Short
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow”
(Matthew 6:34).
When I was a boy I always wished that I was older than I was. I thought if I were only 13, a teenager, I would have it made. When I reached 13, I wanted to be 16, so I could drive a car. Then it was 18, because I thought I would have more privileges. When I reached 18 my longing was to be 21, and be of age and, as I thought, free to do as I pleased and out from the yoke of my parent’s authority. Now in my sixties I feel like I’ve blinked and it’s gone. Much of it I have wasted and frittered away, and I can only echo the words of the Apostle Paul, “But by the grace of God I am what I am” (1 Corinthians 15:10).
Life is short! As my mother used to say, “Don’t wish your life away, live for the Lord today…one day at a time.” As an older friend and brother in Christ, I want to encourage those of you who are younger to do this. I know there are certain stages of life we think will never end, but they do, and sometimes the stage on the horizon is more challenging than the one we have just gone through. Trust the Lord, seek His will for today, and do it, and leave tomorrow and the future in His loving hands.
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