Daily devotion – wasted life
Psa 39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Our world is currently fixated with not creating waste. That everything should be able to be recycled and nothing thrown away.
But the big problem is still the problem of the heart! It’s true life is short and the older one gets the more you realize this fact. Things that happened ten, twenty or thirty years ago seem like they took place just yesterday!
But as your mind turns to the future you realize how short life is and how much of it you have wasted on foolish things. When people neglect the God who created them and continue to simply live on the animal plain they are wasting away a life given to them by God to live for Him and His glory!
That’s real waste and often it is only when they are breathing their last breaths laying in some place waiting to die that the stark reality of this is realized. A life completely selfishly wasted on nothing!
None of us no how much time we have to live but even if God gives us a long life by most standards, our time here on this planet is brief!
Psalm 39: 5 You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath.”
You will remember the story of the man Jesus called a fool who had prospered in wealth and was contemplating building bigger barns to store his ‘wealth’?
Luke 12: 18 Then he said, ‘I know! I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones. Then I’ll have room enough to store all my wheat and other goods. 19 And I’ll sit back and say to myself, “My friend, you have enough stored away for years to come. Now take it easy! Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’
21 “Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.”
This Christmas make sure you are not planning on building bigger and better barns but instead growing and maturing your relationship with He who created you!
Turn your life back to Christ and turn your back on wasting your life on worldly wealth that you cannot take with you.
Make Christmas about Christ being the most important part of your everyday living – the One who gives you breath to breathe!