Psalm 90:¹⁰ The length of our days is seventy years- /or eighty, if we have the strength; /yet their span ^[1] is but trouble and sorrow, /for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
Romans 13:¹¹And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. ¹²The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Ecclesiastes 3:¹⁰ I have seen the burden God has laid on men. ¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Psalm 31:¹⁴ But I trust in you, O LORD ; /I say, "You are my God." /¹⁵ My times are in your hands; /deliver me from my enemies /and from those who pursue me.
Psalm 118:²⁴ This is the day the LORD has made; /let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Proverbs 27:¹ Do not boast about tomorrow, /for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
James 4:¹³Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." ¹⁴Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ¹⁵Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.”

Hosea 10:¹² Sow for yourselves righteousness, /reap the fruit of unfailing love, /and break up your unplowed ground; /for it is time to seek the LORD , /until he comes /and showers righteousness on you.
Mark 1:³⁵Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Matthew 6:³³But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
1 Peter 4:²As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.

1 Chronicles 12:³² men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do-200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command;
³⁸ All these were fighting men who volunteered to serve in the ranks. They came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. All the rest of the Israelites were also of one mind to make David king.
Esther 4:¹² When Esther's words were reported to Mordecai, ¹³ he sent back this answer: "Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape. ¹⁴ For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?"

Ecclesiastes 3:¹ There is a time for everything, /and a season for every activity under heaven:
Psalm 90:¹² Teach us to number our days aright, /that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 39:⁴ "Show me, O LORD , my life's end /and the number of my days; /let me know how fleeting is my life.
 
The Burning Torch
Among ancient Greeks the runner who won the race was not the man who crossed the line in the shortest time, but the man who crossed it in the least time with his torch still burning.
We are so often so busy with life's activities that we are in danger of allowing the torch of our spiritual life to become extinguished.
A good woman once said that in the rush and hurry of her life she felt in danger of being "jostled out of her spirituality." There is a real danger of being too busy to be good, of running too fast to keep our torch burning.

Psalm 90:¹² Teach us to number our days aright, /that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 8:⁵ Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, /and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.
Colossians 4:⁵Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.
Ephesians 5:¹⁵Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, ¹⁶making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. ¹⁷Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
 
Decision Without Procrastination
During the early days of the ministry of Dwight L. Moody, the great evangelist launched a series of meetings in Chicago with promise of the largest crowds that he had ever addressed up to that time. He was speaking of the life of Christ, and on the first Sunday night, October 8, 1871, he took as his topic the trial before Pilate. As he came to the end of his message, he turned to Mat_27:22, "What shall I do then with Jesus, who is called Christ?" He concluded, "I wish you would take this text home with you and turn it over in your minds during the week, and next Sabbath we will come to Calvary and the cross, and we will decide what to do with Jesus of Nazareth."
It may have been an artistic device. But speaking of it in later years, Moody called that conclusion to his morning's address the greatest mistake of his life. Even while Mr. Sankey was singing the final hymn:
 
Today the Savior calls; /For refuge fly; /The storm of justice falls, /And death is nigh-
 
the fire engines began to sound on the street on their way to their first contact with the great Chicago fire in which Moody's hall was laid in ashes, and in which it is estimated that over a thousand persons lost their lives. Moody never saw that congregation again, and some of those to whom he spoke on that night doubtlessly died.
 
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Genesis 2:² By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested ^[1] from all his work. ³ And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
Psalm 46:¹⁰ "Be still, and know that I am God; /I will be exalted among the nations, /I will be exalted in the earth."
Psalm 62:¹ My soul finds rest in God alone; /my salvation comes from him. /² He alone is my rock and my salvation; /he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
Matthew 14:²³After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,
Ephesians 5:¹Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children ²and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Hebrews 4:⁹There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; ¹⁰for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. ¹¹Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.
John 12:³⁶Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of light." When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.
Mark 6:³⁰The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. ³¹Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest."
³²So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place.

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