Dave’s Monday Blast – February 20, 2017
A “small” tech company out of San Francisco called Planet launched 88 satellites on Valentine’s Day to go along with the 56 they already manage in orbit, for a grand total of 144 satellites. Planet recently purchased Google’s Earth imaging business. Their goal of imaging the entire earth’s landmass every day is now possible. The proverbial “eyes in the sky” are real. There is a spiritual principle for Men of INTENTION to contemplate here.
An excellent reason to do the right thing is because it’s the right thing. But another is because there are consequences if you don’t. Not only are more people watching you than ever before, but your omniscient Lord “sees everything under the heavens” (Job 28:24) and “searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought” (1 Chronicles 28:9; Acts 1:24; 1 Corinthians 2:11). The consequences of sin are death (Romans 6:23). Sin always takes us further than we wanted to go, keeps us longer than we wanted to stay, and costs us more than we wanted to pay.
Do you live with any regrets? 90% of people surveyed have a MAJOR REGRET about something in their lives and typically that regret is specific to poor choices…really poor choices. How do we “fix” regret? Well of course we should act to correct what is wrong today, before it’s too late and we are left with regrets over things undone and unsaid. To that end, consider a biblical text: “O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!” (Psalm 39:4).
The Denison Forum comments on this prayer of King David:
- We do not know how fleeting life is, which is why we must pray for God to teach us this truth. We think we have more time than we do.
- Only God can reveal the urgency of life to us. He does so through Scripture, reason, intuition, and circumstances.
- If we do not pray for such revelation, we will not receive it. We will waste our time and our lives.
- If we will make David’s prayer ours, God will use our time and life well. We will live with both urgency and serenity.
As a result of his prayer, David could testify, “Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you” (v. 5). He concludes, “Now O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you” (v.7).
