time is short what is your life it's
even a vapor that appeareth for a little
time and then vanishes away if I told
say if someone had told me when I was 20
years old that life was very short and
would pass just like that I wouldn't
have believed it and if I tell you that
you don't believe it either I cannot get
young people to understand how brief
life is how quickly it passes it seems
like yesterday I was in school every one
of us here has been given the same
amount of time in a day fourteen hundred
and forty minutes a day 168 hours per
week
seventy years God allows us and it's
interesting to me with all of our
medical science we've never passed that
magic mark the average American male
today lives seventy years and four
months the average female 73 years and
six months more people live to be 70 but
the average age of an American is still
70 as taught in the scriptures what a
thing it is when you think that you have
just one short life to spend
I'd write down my priorities in life and
I'd get committed to certain priorities
now is the accepted time the things we
ought to do the classes we ought to take
the books we ought to read do it now the
family that need you spend more time now
write that letter home now that you've
been meaning to write money you ought to
give give now time for study do it now
people you ought to witness to do it now
every time the clock ticks it seems to
say now today if you will hear his voice
there may not be a tomorrow fee and for
me because there's a warning - time time
is running out for all of us time is too
short for indecision and vacillation do
not halt between two opinions fools say
the time is law every morning we have
86,400 seconds to spend and to invest
and each day the bank named time opens a
new account for you and for me it allows
no balances in no overdrafts if you fail
to use the days disc posits the losses
yours
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the Bible says redeemed the time because
the days are evil and the days in which
we are living up very evil if there was
ever a time for the gospel that can
transform the human heart it's now Jesus
said as long as it is day we must do the
work of him that sent us the night is
coming when no man can work the night is
going to come in your life yet there was
a serenity about the work of the Lord
Jesus it's the quality of life not the
lengths Jesus only had 33 years
and it ended on the cross to the world
he was a failure yet that moment yet at
the end of his life he said I finished
the work that thou gave us me to do it
doesn't matter whether you live another
year or two years of five years will you
no work be finished
is there a quality to it is there a
dedication to it suppose all of our
members tie their time to witness for
Christ as we tithe our income for the
church fill your heart with the Word of
God I found that those who know the
scriptures are the ones that have the
power today but we need men and women
who walk with God and if you do that you
too can finish the work that God gave
you to do and help us to realize the
brevity and the urgency of time
and may we invest what little time we
have in the kingdom of God
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