2023_06_07 Insight Post- Rusty Coram
This week’s reading- Deuteronomy 1-3, Acts 13
I had a birthday recently. I am not particularly sentimental about things like that, but over the past several years when a birthday comes around, I spend a little time evaluating my life and how I am investing it. A passage that has challenged me in this is in our reading this week:
“…for after David had done the will of God in his own generation, he died and was buried with his ancestors…” Acts 13:36 NLT
There is a difference between living our life, and deliberately investing it in God’s purposes. Psalm 90 tells us:
“The length of our days is seventy years—
or eighty, if we have the strength;
yet their span is but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
12Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” Psalm 90:10–12 (NIV84)
Investing our life well means pursuing God and determining to live each day for and with Him. It means treating our responsibilities and opportunities as ones that allow us to honor and represent Him. It means praying before a decision is made to be sure it is right, and then praying for strength, courage, and discernment along the way, and never operating merely on cruise control.
Doing God’s will is really a matter of being faithful in all the little things that come our way, so we will be ready to tackle the big ones. Over time we build a legacy to the value of living a life devoted to our Creator, Savior, and Leader.
This is what I want my life to be like so that, like David, it might be said that I have “done the will of God in my own generation”.
Rusty Coram
Senior Pastor