I'm only 27, and yet these last few years I have felt as though time was speeding up- weeks blink by, months melt away, one season fades quickly into the next. And I'm told that, the older you get, the faster it moves! I feel eternity's accelerating approach.
The Psalmist prayed, "Teach me to number my days, that I may get a heart of wisdom." Wisdom views this world as it really is- temporal, fleeting, quickly fading away; and wisdom views eternity as it really is- everlasting in its duration, weighty in its significance, accelerating in its approach. And wisdom then lives accordingly. More and more, I want to live my life with eternity in view. "Set your minds on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God."
"How quick the time flies! Oh that we may have grace to number our days, and to begin to view the things of this world in the light which they will, doubtless, appear in when we are upon the point of leaving them. How many things, which are too apt to appear important now, and to engross too much of our time, and thoughts, and strength, will then be acknowledged as vain and trivial as the imperfect recollection of a morning dream!"
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