since most of you in this room have lived 16 years, 5,840 days are gone, and only God knows how many days you will have in this brief journey on earth. In Psalm 90, Moses uses the picture of grass growing up in the day, being impacted by the noonday sun, then slowly withering by evening. So life appears as grass growing and withering (vv. 5–6). James depicts life as “a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes” (James 4:14). Today is all you have. Yesterday is past. Tomorrow may not
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