The Seven Stages of Man

The seven stages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills. - Richard J. Needham,

The Wit and Wisdom of Richard Needham

If life is so short, how can we do anything of any lasting value? I will tell you. You live your life for the glory of God and you will impact eternity for it because God and his truth is eternal.

Here’s a lesson you must never forget. You must hold onto it tightly and let it impress itself deeply upon your soul and mind – You only have one life, make it last, live it to the glory of God.

TIME, wasted

How would you like to spend 2 years making phone calls to people who aren't home? Sound absurd? According to one time management study, that's how much time the average person spends trying to return calls to people who never seem to be in. Not only that, we spend 6 months waiting for the traffic light to turn green, and another 8 months reading junk mail. These unusual statistics should cause us to do time-use evaluation. Once we recognize that simple "life maintenance" can chip away at our time in such huge blocks, we will see how vital it is that we don't busy ourselves "in vain" (Ps 39:6).

Psalm 39 gives us some perspective. In David's complaint to God, he said, "You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You" (V. 5). He meant that to an eternal God our time on earth is brief. And He doesn't want us to waste it. When we do, we throw away one of the most precious commodities He gives us. Each minute is an irretrievable gift--and unredeemable slice of eternity. Sure, we have to make the phone calls, and we must wait at the light. But what about the rest of our time? Are we using it to advance the cause of Christ and to enhance our relationship with Him? Is our time well spent?

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A Life Once Spent Is Irrevocable

A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity.'the same may be said of each day. When it is once past, it is gone forever. All the marks which we put upon it, it will exhibit forever.?Each day will not only be a witness of our conduct, but will affect our everlasting destiny.?How shall we then wish to see each day marked with usefulness?! It is too late to mend the days that are past. The future is in our power. Let us, then, each morning, resolve to send the day into eternity in such a garb as we shall wish it to wear forever. And at night let us reflect that one more day is irrevocably gone, indelibly marked.

Adoniram Judson, in E. Judson, The Life of Adoniram Judson (Anson, Randolph & Company, 1883), pp. 13-15

The tragedy of life is not that it is so short, but that we start living it so late.