...on a roll...

Three posts in one week? I must be procrastinating... :)

At any rate, just thought I'd share some biblical truth from our sermon this past Sunday.

Adam (my care group leader) preached on Psalm 90. If anything, it is good to remember that "our lives are fleeting and fading fast!"

"10 The length of our days is seventy years—
or eighty, if we have the strength;
yet their span [a] is but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away."

70 or 80 years sounds like a lot to this 23 year old (almost 24!!!) (thats almost 50 more years!!)
But to an ETERNAL God, it is but a flash!!!

"4 For a thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night."

Adam had this great illustration that took all of history and condensed it down into one week--giving each day 1000 years. (Thanks Adam for sending this to me!)

On Sunday/Monday--
God created the heavens and earth and everything in them.

On Tuesday --
Whole earth was exceedingly wicked, but Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD and survived the flood.

On Wednesday--
Abraham was called. Moses was born. "Pharaoh, Pharaoh! Let my people go." Plagues on Egypt. Israel redeemed. "5 little stones went in the sling" and David rises to the throne.

On Thursday--
The temple was built. The kingdom divides. Zephaniah-Haggai-Zechariah-Malachi

On Friday--
Jesus born in a manger. Grew in wisdom and stature. Was crucified, buried and raised from the dead. Sin dethroned. Death lost its sting. Jesus ascended. The Spirit came. The gospel spread. The church exploded. 1st and 2nd and 3rd John, Jude, and Revelation

On Saturday--
Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses. Christopher Columbus landed in America.

And finally, this morning--while you were sleeping--
The Pilgrims landed. Electricity was discovered. The Holocaust. Roe v Wade. Cell Phones. The internet. Y2K. 911.

"Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations…from everlasting to everlasting you are God…a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past or a watch in the night."

Praise Him. Lord, teach us to number our days, that we might gain a heart of wisdom!