My wife and I will be celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary in a few days. I say celebrating, but I'm not in a frame of mind to celebrate. There's nobody else I'd want to be married to, but we just got married yesterday. Not 25 years ago. Somebody handed me a copy of one of our wedding pictures the other day and I can't believe what a baby I looked like. Twenty three years old, and I look like a kid to myself.

What's more, my 30 year class reunion is coming up in July. Thirty years. I still feel like I'm twenty-five years old. I said that to my brother and he said, "Guess what? You're not."

Time flies by so quickly. I've always been conscious of it though. When I was a young man I read a verse from the Book of James. Verse 14 of Chapter 4 says, "whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away."

I really need to pay attention and get to work, because we only have a very short time here. I have a job to do as a believer. My job is sonship. It is the business of the Savior that I'm to be about until He comes again. I could step off a curb and die tomorrow. I think our brief lives are a sure sign of the way God loves us.

In Job 14:1, Job says, "Man who is born of woman, Is of a few days and full of trouble." Isn't it amazing, that we are, truly, here briefly and full of trouble, but the God of the universe takes an interest in us? Not merely an interest but makes definite plan regarding us, and while we were "yet sinners", He sacrificed His only begotten Son for us, so that we could live forever.

Ps 78:38-39 says, "38 But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity,And did not destroy them.Yes, many a time He turned His anger away,And did not stir up all His wrath; 39 For He remembered that they were but flesh,A breath that passes away and does not come again."

God doesn't owe us anything. He does what He does for us completely out of merciful, forgiving and compassionate love. I know Him, and realize what a short time I have here. If I'd forgotten a little, these upcoming events in my life have reminded me and brought it directly back home to me that, with a loving Holy Spirit behind me, the job, the work can get done. My prayer is that I will be granted the courage and the strength and the wisdom to do what is given me.