‘Most of my life was now spent’

“Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God,” Psalm 90:2.

God is eternal, yet man is finite, a mist or vapor, as James says, that vanishes quickly.

Like most, even though I was a preacher who spoke of mortality and the need to prepare for eternity, I really was not confronted with a close death, outside of grandparents and a younger cousin passing, until my first wife passed at age 49 in late 2020. With half of me in the oneness I had shared in marriage (Genesis 2:24) ripped away, I awoke to my own mortality and that most of my life was now spent.

“The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away,” verse 10 states.

With so little time left to us (and we know not how little), the psalmist concludes in verse 12, “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.”

We must make the most of every opportunity in every moment that God gives us here on earth to make a difference for His kingdom and Name. We can rest when we’re dead.

What are you, in your wisdom, doing for God?