And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7)
Have you ever thought about a lifetime? Is it days or weeks or years? One lives to be 98, another lives only to 45, another only to 2 months: yet each lived a lifetime.
Whatever the length, a lifetime is all we are given. For each one, God has a purpose. “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”
With our finite minds, we cannot understand, but with our hearts, we can believe. “Now we see through a glass darkly…” Now we can only believe by faith.
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Believing via faith and your beautiful, heartfelt and timely words, BD!
MJ
I often wonder why some lifetimes are so much shorter than others. Do you think that they had a specific mission and when that was completed their time was up?
I believe by faith that no life, no matter how short, is less than God’s perfect plan.
Amen Butch.
So true! God numbers our days. The Bible does give us examples of man pleading with God to extend his days, and God has had mercy and done so; however, God knew in advance this would happen, and so still, that person’s days were numbered. He knows the exact day, time, up to the very second and the very circumstance that we shall exhale our last breath…and if it is that day and time, nothing we or anyone else can do will stop it.
So we should always, always continue to pray in faith whenever someone is ill or dying because we do know miracles happen, and God may have mercy and extend the days as He did for Hezekiah in the Old Testament. We also know of the many miracles that happened in the New Testament as well.
2 Kings 20, God extends Hezekiah’s life by 15 years.
In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.’” Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying, “Now, O LORD, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him: “Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD, and I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.” And Isaiah said, “Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover.”
And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?” And Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?” And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. Rather let the shadow go back ten steps.” And Isaiah the prophet called to the LORD, and he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz.
(2 Kings 20:1-11 ESV)
Great post brother! God bless you for sharing!