Time?

How much time do you have? We all have the same 24 hours a day, and we use them in so many different ways!!  I so admire my multi-talented friends who are crafty in so many ways.

A couple create such beautiful cards. Even with the helpful machines, it takes talent to put all the pieces together and evoke emotions.  Some sew, taking patterns, fitting them together like puzzles and wear them, looking beautiful in beautiful creations.  How about those who knit, or crochet? Unique pieces for use or display. Talent displayed.

Just as talented are the workers – it takes more than talent to hold a job today, in this painful economic climate.  They spend time getting to their job, then providing to their employer all they’ve promised and returning home. That’s a talent, too.

Yesterday’s post looked at a 2008 survey and I’ve hoped that readers would think about the time allotted to them.  The Bible says:

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 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.  (Psalms 90:9-10 KJV)

Well, I have that seventy years – and it appears there may more ahead, but I can’t know that.  None of us can.  So, the psalmist continued:

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. (Psalms 90:12 KJV)

So much of this summer was spent traveling to/from and waiting in doctors’ offices that it seems as though June was just last week and what happened to the rest of the summer!  We still did the every day ordinary things, too – washing, vacuuming (hoovering for those on the isles), cooking, dishwashing, bill paying – with regular trips to our church for some learning, refilling and fellowship.  We continued with our social life, too – dominoes, birthday parties, visiting.  But it’s gone. Nothing done this summer can be undone.

None of the diagnoses can be undone, either, and that truly has brought us the lesson of numbering our days.  Proverbs tells us about that wisdom:

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. (Proverbs 4:7 KJV)

Wisdom was requested by Solomon, and God granted that prayer. Bezaleel of Judah also received the gift of wisdom:

And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, (Exodus 31:3 KJV)

He became a great workman on God’s temple and his name is read along with Solomon’s these centuries later.  Could we do as well by numbering our days and using our time in God’s plan?