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Life Keeps Getting Shorter. Let’s Spend It Well

Now 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.” Why, 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. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” James 4:13-15

Heavenly Father, on this First Sunday in June, this Scripture reminds us we’re more like morning glories than aging oaks. You’ve created us for your glory, redeemed us by the gospel, and numbered our days. What a gracious God you are. How would you have us live the rest of our lives?

In light of the gospel and your sovereign pleasure, what should we spend more time doing, and less time doing? What do we need to make a bigger deal of, and a lesser deal of? What’ve we been putting off that really matters to you, Father? Where in Jesus’ mission of grace would you have us invest more passion and energy, joy and tears?

Where should we spend more of your money and less of our worries?  With whom should we spend face-to-face and heart-to-heart time? Who’s coming behind us we need to invest in?

What relationships have we wrongly allowed to claim and drain us—mentally and emotionally? Who are we still holding hostage by the chains of unforgiveness and bitterness? Free us, Lord. Give us wisdom.

Father, we praise you that we’re not going to merit any more of your affection by doing a better job with any of these things. None of these questions has a scorecard attached to it. It’s Jesus’ performance and record in which we boast.

But your grace frees us to ask the right questions and live a freer, more intentional life. Make our gospel-bucket-list for us, Father. So very Amen, we pray, in Jesus’ matchless and magnificent name.

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