A rocking chair with no where to go!
Luke 12: 25 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
Jesus is saying, how many of you by worrying, can add any more time to your life here on earth?
Answer – no one!
In fact, worry can shorten your life, or least make it harder.
Our culture today is obsessed with lengthening our life, eating right food, exercise and taking the right vitamin supplements.
Whilst there is nothing wrong with taking good care of your body, there’s a much more important part of you that needs looking after – your soul!
There is a place for taking care of yourself physically but understand – YOU WILL NOT LENGTHEN YOUR LIFE.
You will live as long as God wants you to live.
You do not determine your date of birth nor do you determine you date of death.
But you have a lot to say and do about that little dash in the middle of those two dates!
Which is why Psalm 90 tells us…The days of our lives are seventy years;
And if by reason of strength they are eighty years,
Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow;
For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
So teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Number our days….means to take the measure of our days as compared with the work to be performed, with the provision to be laid up for eternity:
with the preparation to be made for death,
with the precaution to be taken against judgment.
In other words, the life, the days God has given you, He has given you for a godly purpose. That is to do all that He has called you to do, for His glory, and for His joy to dominate your life.
We are to live our life carefully and prayerfully and recognise anxiety and worry will not lengthen your life, your time here on earth. They are not to have a part robbing our time here as we live for the Lord.
Someone once said that worry is like sitting in a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but you get no-where!
This week, when worries rise within you, change them into a prayer and give them over to God. Let Him sort out those things and bring blessing and peace back into your life.