Our Journey in Life

Here's some verses from Psalm 90, about life...beginning to end:

Psalm 90:1-17 (NIV)
¹ Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
² Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
³ You turn men back to dust, saying, "Return to dust, O sons of men."
⁴ For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.

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

¹² Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

¹⁴ Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. 

And, here's another perspective from Ecclesiastes...
Ecclesiastes 12:1-14 (NIV)
¹ Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them"--

¹³ Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole [duty] of man.
¹⁴ For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.

 I'm reading through the Gospels in harmony...that is reading all four at the same time skipping back and forth between them,  to try to understand the record of Jesus' ministry as it unfolded in time.
I couldn't help but notice that Jesus is often hard on those who "should know better"...the Pharisees, Jewish leaders, even the disciples at time..., but he seems to be much more lenient with those who are weak, without privilege, and seemingly on the "outside" of life.

His overall perspective is constantly on where people are in relation to the Kingdom of God.  He made no bones about it...this is why he was preaching/teaching/ministering.  His desire was to show the power of God at work in everyday life...day after day...month after month...year after year.

Faith isn't lived out on Sundays, it's lived out in day by day things.  Here's a quote I ran across in doing some reading on the life of George Washington Carver...a truly amazing faith-filled individual.

Read it, then go back and read those passages at the beginning of this blog.

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

Peace