How will you measure the time you’ve got remaining here on earth?  That is if we are not called home before the completion of our allotted time.  If we are to live to roughly seventy to eighty years, according the Bible, then how many days does that mean that each of us has left?  Three Hundred Sixty Five days per year, lets go from the mean which is forty.  That means a person who is currently forty and lives to be eighty would have 365 X 40 days remaining on this planet, which is 14,600 days or 480 months.  For every 10 years closer to that date subtract 3650 days or 120 months.

These numbers may bring relief to some, confusion to others and anxiety to the remainder, but the compounding component is that none of this is guaranteed.  How valuable do these numbers become when held up against the light of the revealing words such as imminent, or vapor or twinkling?  So if you’re fourteen or fifty don’t count on the math so much as you count on the value.  For although we all would wish for long life wouldn’t we rather a life well lived with joy and peace in Christ.  Since the length has no guarantee live it as if you mean it.  In Christ we pray, God of All.  Amen.