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Yesterday was a really weird and wild day.  Tom McGehee’s son tragically lost his life in a motorcycle accident in Florida Sunday.  Tom called and it broke my heart for him.  Jordon Fowler had a close friend who’s daughter has been critically injured in a car accident.  Mike Fechner of “HisBridgeBuilders” discovered he has lung cancer.  There are a couple of others as well - - - -

These things are sobering of life’s final reality, which we deny and avoid. We live our lives as if it will never happen.  Leonard Ravenhill used to say “Live for Eternity.”  How do you do that?

1.  Know your Maker - you are the created and he is the Creator.  Living with no sense of the divine can cause us to both run and ruin our lives.

2.  Know your time - both in terms of where you are in life and what you do in life.  If it’s all about you and your stuff and the moment then you will not see the big picture.  History is one of the greatest teachers of all in terms of knowing how time in this world concludes for all and how some saw life and made the most of it.

3.  Know who matters.  I once read that the most relationships a person can really have and invest in are 20.  I think it’s true.  Who are those 20 people?  Where does your family fit in there? 

4.  Know what matters.  Who’s on the same mission as you?  What will you say when you stand before God?  What will you have to give God as a gift of service and love?
 
Psa. 90:0 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.
Psa. 90:1 Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Psa. 90:2 Before the mountains were born
  Or You gave birth to the earth and the world,
  Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
Psa. 90:3 You turn man back into dust
  And say, “Return, O children of men.”
Psa. 90:4 For a thousand years in Your sight
  Are like yesterday when it passes by,
  Or as a watch in the night.
Psa. 90:5 You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;
  In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.
Psa. 90:6 In the morning it flourishes and sprouts anew;
  Toward evening it fades and withers away.
Psa. 90:7 For we have been consumed by Your anger
  And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.
Psa. 90:8 You have placed our iniquities before You,
  Our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
Psa. 90:9 For all our days have declined in Your fury;
  We have finished our years like a sigh.
Psa. 90:10 As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,
  Or if due to strength, eighty years,
  Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow;
  For soon it is gone and we fly away.
Psa. 90:11 Who understands the power of Your anger
  And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?
Psa. 90:12 So teach us to number our days,
  That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.
Psa. 90:13 Do return, O LORD; how long will it be?
  And be sorry for Your servants.
Psa. 90:14 O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness,
  That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Psa. 90:15 Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us,
  And the years we have seen evil.
Psa. 90:16 Let Your work appear to Your servants
  And Your majesty to their children.
Psa. 90:17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;
  And confirm for us the work of our hands;
  Yes, confirm the work of our hands.