Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it today, when a long time later he spoke though David, as was said before: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
                                                                            Hebrews 4:7

Seems like the last year or so has been a time of me beginning to recognize some of my own physical limits.   I’m 46 now, and the broken bones just don’t heal as quickly, most of my joints stay sore all of the time, and both of my sons can pretty much kick my butt!  I’m also a grandfather now.  I love my grandson Landon; he’s cute, fun, mischievous, and a joy to be with.  It’s just that getting up off of the floor after a round of ‘chase pa-pa in the walker’ seems to be a greater ordeal than it should be.  (Can anyone say: ‘Help, I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up?)

Perhaps most significantly though is the constant reminder that all of the aches and pains are of my own mortality.  Our time on this earth really is just a fleeting breath that is here today and is gone tomorrow.  In the grand scheme of things and in the shadow of eternity, we are barely on this earth long enough to say hello.

And yet, perhaps one of the most amazing and mysterious truths of this life that we have in Christ is that He sent us here, for this short time, to make a very significant impact.  For like Esther, I believe each of us have been placed in this day and this place ‘for such a time as this.’

But sadly, most of us will miss it. Most of us will get so caught up with mortgages, work, vacations, possessions and disappointments over aches and pains that we will fail to live the life of great significance that our King has for us. 

I don’t want to be that person.  I want to wake up each morning with my back a little stiffer and my eyes a little weaker and thank God for the reminder that now is my time, now is my today.

To the King,

David