"We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Then these from Psalm 37:
"The Lord knows the days"
Maybe it was just because I have been looking for an excuse to use this picture of a light:
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but, the ideas of my days, night and light seem to come together as I walked this morning.
The gist of the Psalm 37 passage is that God knows all of my days, those that I have lived, but also those that are left in this life. I can't know how many or how few are allotted to me, and my responsibility is to live them in such a way that He is glorified and that others are blessed. Since I cannot know how many future days there are, the only day that I can work in is the one that I am living inside right now. Today is that day. Use it wisely.
Jesus says in that John 9 passage that I need to work while it is day, for the night is coming when no man can work. Night is the time when my eyes are closed, either in sleep or in death. I can't work if I can't see, and that is why it is imperative that I do His work while those daylight hours are available. Again, it is the use of the lighted hours, corresponding to those days I have, that need to be used rightly.
It is hard for me to do much work with the help of that light I pictured. That night light is good for pushing back some of the darkness, but for detailed work, it is just inadequate.
Jesus says that He is the Light, and His light is what I need to see clearly how to use this day that I have been given.
When I was 40 or 50 or even 60, it seemed like there were still a lot of days out in front of me, but I could not know. How many opportunities were missed to serve because I did not live fully the day that I was given? I wonder, but can't dwell too long on that.
I have this day and I need to use it, and I need to use the proper light source.
God helping me, I pray.
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