what is your greatest surprise in life and I answered the brevity of life if I told 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 every one of us here has been given the same amount of time in a day 1, 1440 minutes a day 168 hours per week the days of our years
are three score years and 10 and if by reason of strength their four score Years yet is their strength labor and sorrow for it is soon cut off and we are passed away and cut off time is short it's even a vapor that appear it for a little time and then vanisheth away 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 70 years and 4 months the average female 73 years and 6 months more people live to be 70 but the average
age of an American is still 70 so let's think a moment what do we do with those 70 years the first 15 I spent in childhood or the and then 20 years we sleep and then the Last 5 Years physical limitations are curtailing your activities they haven't curtailed mine yet but I my 5ifth year till 70 starts next year only 30 years left and part of that time must be spent in eating meals working and figuring out your income tax things like that when you think that you have just one short life to spend and
it'll soon be open I'd write down my priorities in life and I'd get committed to certain priorities the things we ought to do the classes we ought to take the books we ought to read do it now the family that needs 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 every time the clock ticks it seems to say now today if you will hear he his voice there may not be a tomorrow for you and for
me because there's a warning to 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 long every morning we have 86,400 seconds to spend and to invest and each day the bank Bank name time opens a new account for you and for me it allows no balances and no overdrafts if you fail to use the days deposits the loss is yours the Bible says redeem the time because the days are evil and the days in which we living
of their 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 length Jesus only had 33 years and it ended on the cross to the world he was a failure at that moment yet at the
end of his life he said I finished the work that thou gavest me to do it doesn't matter whether you live another year or two years or 5 years will your work be finished is 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 brev with in the urgency of time and may we invest what little time we have in the kingdom of God [Music]
