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What would you do with 950 years?

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“So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.” Genesis 9:39, NKJV

What would you, my friend, do with nine hundred and fifty years? If that was your allotted time on earth and you knew it, how would your days be filled? What goals or aspirations would you work toward? What plans would you love to see come to pass?

Nine hundred and fifty years is a lot of time compared to our days on earth now. I can’t even imagine what can be done with so much disposable time. Oh, the things that could be accomplished!

Noah wasn’t the only one. In the beginning of Genesis, living hundreds of years was not uncommon (see Genesis 5). But what is also uncommon is that in our time we do not have these years of age afforded to us. To live for almost a millennium is way out of our scope for living on this earth. As a matter of fact, we have grand celebrations if we can only make it to one hundred. That’s a great feat for us.

Knowing that our time is much shorter than those in the beginning of Genesis, what are we doing with the time we do have? How are we spending our days with this precious life we have been given?

There is a Latin phrase we love to quote often: “Carpe diem,” which means “seize the day.” We may not have hundreds of years, but we do have today. We may not know how many years we do have or how all our tomorrows will work out, but we do have today.

The very moment we are in is all that we have, and at any moment, that too, can end. What will your story be?

God has gifted us today along with its “right now” moments. Use them wisely, my friends.

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalm 90:12

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To find more encouragement for how to spend your days, tap one of the links below ↓↓

“It’s About Time!”

“When You Feel There Aren’t Enough Hours In a Day!”

“The Grace of Time”

“Live It Well”

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The Grace of Time

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Have you ever thought of the many different ways the grace of God shows up in our lives? Have you ever taken a moment to reflect on His great gift of time?

Time. Oh, how precious it is. For every second that has passed, there will not be another in its place. Once those moments, hours, days, and years are gone, they are gone.

Time is not a reusable commodity. It’s a use-it-while-you-have-it reality.

Therefore, when I think about time, I think of each precious bit that is doled out to us daily, not only as a gift but as God’s grace at work in our lives once again.

The grace of time can present itself in so many ways. Perhaps, it’s found in just the few extra seconds the light stayed green for you during a hectic morning rush. It could be found in the opportunity to hold a dear one a little bit longer. At one point in the Bible, God even graced Joshua and the army of Israel with more time to advance against their enemies by holding the sun and the moon still (Joshua 10:12-13).

But I think the most precious grace of time is seen in the longsuffering of our Heavenly Father. 2 Peter 3:9 shows us, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” This verse shows us the love in action behind the grace of time. It shows us that our eternal God, who is not bound by the hours on the clock, holding off the final day of judgment for a little while longer to give as many as possible the chance to repent and turn their lives around.

This grace of time isn’t for us to determine when it is done. The judgment of time belongs to the Father. Even Jesus said, “But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father,” (Mark 13:32).

To that, He adds, “Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is,” (Mark 13:33).

How wise it would be for us to take a page from David’s story and acknowledge, “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding,” (1 Chronicles 29:15).

With that being said, Father God, we thank You for this day that you have given us, and we thank You for the grace of time.

“My times are in thy hand . . .” Psalm 31:15

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalm 90:12

“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5:16

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