Making The Most Of Your Time Series

2. Remember God is ETERNAL, and We’re Not. (vv.3-6)

· We will be turned to dust. (KJV “destruction”) Our bodies will be destroyed by decay. Our bodies are not eternal. Our earthly bodies have been decreed by God to return. Return to the ground from which it came. A thousand years is but yesterday in God’s mind. A thousand years is like a few hours in the night. A “watch in the night” is 4 hours. Night begins at 6pm. And morning begins at 6am. A total of 3 watches during the night. 2Peter 3:8 “But beloved be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” God is not confined to time. He supercedes time. God is eternal.

According to v.5 we eventually are swept away like a flood. It reminds me of the recent tsunami. In a matter of seconds people were swept away out to sea. Our days are like a dream. We sleep and the dream is over. We are like grass that grows but soon it withers and is cut down.

APPLICATION: We can make the most of our days on earth, if we will keep in mind that we are not eternal. We are not here forever. We have an expiration date. When that time comes, there’s nothing you can do to prolong it. You can’t dodge it. You can’t escape it. One day we will be cut down. One day we will wither away. The Bible says, It’s appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment…” The old gospel songs says, Life’s sinking sun, is sinking low…. A few more days, and I must go…God is ETERNAL, AND WE’RE NOT….MAKE THE MOST OF THE DAYS WE HAVE.

3. Remember God is Holy, and We’re not. (vv.7-12)

V.7 speaks of the judgment on all humanity because of sin. God’s anger and wrath on sin is the reason we die. God told Adam “in the day that you eat of the forbidden fruit…will be the day you will die” Adam began to die physically. The Bible says in Romans 6:23 the wages of sin is death…. The Bible says be sure of this, your sins will find you out…..finds us in death…

V.8 There is no sin hidden from God. We are sinful opposed to God’s holiness.

V.9 NIV “All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.”

V.10 it doesn’t matter how strong you are, how positive you are, how determined you are….because of sin we will die. God may give us 70 yrs. And if He gives more strength we may reach beyond 80. There are more and more people living today to see even 100yrs old. Yet our days is of labor, and sorrow and soon we are cut off…..we fly away.

V.11 We would make most of our time, if we would see that sin is the reason for all the sorrow, suffering, and death in the world. We are wasting our time if we try to explain away all of life’s curses. To make the most of our time, we should recognize that God is a Holy God. Our response should be to fear Him, that is reverence Him, Respect Him, Give Him the Respect and honor that Only He Deserves. Our days our spent foolishly if we ignore His Holiness.

V.12 We ask God to teach us to number our days. Teach us God to make the most of our days since we are only here for a brief time.