An Eye-Opening Equation

How are you spending your days? Are you still looking at the clock, calendar and schedule to determine the right time to realize your life dream? What is stopping you from launching the business, pursuing the degree or establishing the ministry? Threescore and ten is equivalent to the sum total of seventy. The scripture tells us, the length of our days is seventy years, 25,500 days - or eighty years if we have strength, yet their span is trouble and sorrow for they quickly pass and we fly away. (Psalm 90:10). This eye opening equation became life to me as I examined the course of the 18,980 days I've spent on this earth and what I've accomplished thus far. Seventy years or 25,550 days suddenly seemed very short considering I've already spent the vast majority making my way around obstacles and still trying to figure things out. Or so I thought.......

In an instant, this equation took precedence over every preconceived idea I've had about love, life and service. No longer a notion, this became a revelation and full fledged observation of my stewardship of life, prompting assessment and introspection to see the fruitfulness of my own; evaluating and re-evaluating events and situations, recalling the evidence of God's surpassing power and the cultivating work of His Spirit within me. Where many would argue whether leaders are born or made, I found truth in both theories. By looking back to time I thought was lost, I became certain that every experience and circumstance was to my gain and engulfed by God's grace. Every situation, (the good, the bad and the ugly) has been utilized by Him for my instruction and further preparation for the work to which I've been called.

No more wondering about when to launch out, waiting for the right time to birth ministry or begin the project. All that has been learned must be applied in the areas of our experience. Suddenly I began see the world as my pulpit and the desk where I sit at work or at home as sacred desks upon which I would receive the written oracles afforded me to better serve God's people. I realize I've been born and throughout my threescore and ten, I am still being made into a living epistle being read of men, bearing the example of Christ.

Power Play:
How is God using your threescore and ten (25,500 days)? How have you used your threescore and ten? Use this equation to decide: 365 multiplied by your age (years); Deduct your answer from 25,500, conduct your own introspective work and prepare to launch out. There is no better time than the present. Your presence in this era suggests you were called for a time such as this!
"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven; and God makes everything beautiful in it's time." Ecclessiastes 3:1a, 11a