We are told to count our days and center our life on our Creator for a life without Him is lonely and unfulfilling. Solomon said in Eccl. 12:1, “Honor and enjoy your Creator while you ‘re still young. Before the years take their toll and your vigor wanes.” We must not waste our lives away for the very decisions we make now will impact our future. We will have to live with the choices we make and some are irreversible. We may have brief times of happiness with momentary pleasures, but it will leave us feeling hopeless and that there has to be more to life than what we are experiencing.
King Solomon goes on to say his final word in verse 13-14, “Fear God. Do what He tells you. And that’s it. Eventually God will bring everything that we do out into the open and judge it according to its hidden intent, whether it’s good or evil.” Every day we need to be praying and asking the Lord what His will is for our life and to follow in obedience. I just read about a pastor who was telling another pastor how disappointed he was at the message he just heard from a world-renowned speaker. This particular pastor had traveled a great distance and spent money to hear the pastor who had a large following and kept emphasizing the secret, “I pray: I obey. I pray; I obey.” The pastor listening kept thinking there had to be more to the secret of such church growth, but the message remained the same, I pray, I obey.
Isn’t that what the Lord says to all of us. We are to seek Him and follow in obedience to do whatever He tells us. As we obey our life will be lived with purpose and enjoyment of knowing our Father’s pleasure.
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