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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

WHAT’S ON YOUR BUCKET LIST?


Tuesday, September 25, 2018

WHAT’S ON YOUR BUCKET LIST?

Ps 90:10-12
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

           Most of us have heard the term “Bucket List.” It refers to those things we would like to see, do, and experience before we kick the bucket! We don’t dwell on it much, but the Bible estimates our life span to be about 70 years or maybe 80. Each additional year brings with it “labor and sorrow.” This makes a “bucket list” a reasonable tool.

           The word “number” in verse 12 is the Hebrew maw-naw and it means “to weigh out; to alot, or to enumerate.” The idea of a TO DO LIST is implied. The question of what or how much can be done within the time allotted is asked. The phrase “Rome wasn’t built in a day” gives way to “we’d better hurry.”

Ps 71:18
18 Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

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