Joshua 1:1-18; Hosea 8:1-9:17; Luke 19:29-48
There was a man…There was a day. Job 1:1, 6
The record of Job begins with two statements that remind us of our frailty, a man; and our brevity, a day. The psalmist declared, “Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor” (Ps. 39:5). Then he adds, “Selah”, which should give us pause. When it comes to our days, they are like grass which, if I may paraphrase, is sown, grown, mown, and blown (Ps. 103). Death is no respecter of age. God’s invitation to salvation is now and today. Don’t wait! (2 Cor. 6:2).
—Rex Trogdon
Life at best is very brief, like the falling of a leaf,
Like the binding of a sheaf, be in time.
Fleeting days are telling fast, that the die will soon be cast,
And the fatal line be passed, be in time. —Charles H. Mason