$86,400 Every Day….

If God gave you $86,400 every day, deposited into your bank account, would you be happy? Now before you answer, there one stipulation, you cannot save it, you have to spend it all. Whatever you don’t spend goes away. Now would you be happy? Why? Would it eliminate all your anxiety and worry? Or would it increase those daily focus zappers? However you look at it, it would disrupt your life, wouldn’t it? Here’s the point behind this scenario: we are all given 86,400 seconds each day. We can do whatever ever we want to with it. But once it’s gone, you can never get it back. Some spend it worrying about what they cannot control. While others waste it on pursuing material things, in hope of finding happiness. But at the end of everyone’s life, people are confronted with the reality of regret. They always wish they had just a little more time left, to do or say things that matter most to themselves and others. You see, as the amount of time edges to its limit, people tend to see its immeasurable value. And once it’s gone, we can never get it back. Our time on this earth is finite, just a blink of an eye to God. Our priorities are not really important when God is left out. Time is the only true resource we really have, and in reality, how we use it determines the return on how we investment it. Spend it or invest it, it’s your choice to make. Every day we are given this gift. Why not see its irreplaceable value, and start with the simplest task of thanking God for granting you one more day of it?

4 “Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be.Remind me that my days are numbered–how fleeting my life is.5 You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand.My entire lifetime is just a moment to You;at best, each of us is but a breath.” 6 We are merely moving shadows,and all our busy rushing ends in nothing.We heap up wealth,not knowing who will spend it. Psalms 39:4-6