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June 19
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“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12, KJV 2000)

It isn’t just cartons of milk that bear an expiration date.  We, too, have a fixed number of days. 

It is foolish to live — especially in the face of daily evidence to the contrary — as if we shall never die. Failing either to number our days — or to act as if our days are numbered — means that we are not truly ready to live, because we are not yet ready to die.

Consider the proverb: “A wise man gives what he cannot keep; to gain what he cannot lose.” Redeem the time.  – Luther

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May 24
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“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained,  what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?  For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor.”  (Psalms 8:3-5, NKJV) 
I got up a little earlier than usual this morning in hope of catching the Camelopardalids meteor shower.  Once outside, I spent a lot of time looking up into the northern sky. It wasn’t long before I began to share the feeling of the Psalmist as he looked into the night sky thousands of years ago: Who are we that God might think of us — let alone condescend to visit us?
Then as now, God thinks more often about us than we think about God.

However, today — and every day — we have the opportunity to look around us at the handiwork of our heavenly Father, and be reminded of His great love and concern for everything (and everyone) He has made.  When you find yourself drifting into the sand trap of apathy or toward the shoal waters of despair: Look up!  – Luther

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May 16
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“In your strength I can crush an army; with my God I can scale any wall.” (Psalm 18:29, New Living Translation)

Because of our relationship with our heavenly Father, we ought to be both optimistic (or visionary) and powerful.

A vision without power is like an unplugged electrical appliance.  Power without a vision is a recipe for disappointment.

Living each hour of our day in the strength of the Lord gives us both the vision and the power to “scale any wall.” 

What walls that need to be scaled are facing you?

Fret not.  With God, all things are possible.  – Luther

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