Living The Dash (1)

“Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” James 4:14 (NIV)

In light of eternity, life on earth is marked by brevity.

When you examine your life up close, what really matters in this life is how you live the dash. The dash represents the time you spend on earth. God has given you a certain amount of time to fulfill His plan upon the earth. It comes down to two dates and a dash. The date of your birth, the date of your death, and the dash in between capture your earthly existence. It’s hard to believe that your entire life can be placed on a marble tombstone with two dates and a dash.

Is your life only a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes? If you have the privilege of living over seventy years on this earth, would that be considered a mist? In light of eternity, your seventy years of earthly existence is only a mist.

Here’s the good news! We get to choose how we spend our dash. We get to make choices each day which determine how we live. God created us with the sacred trust of decision making. We can choose to invest our life or we can choose to waste our life.

Ponder your dash. Invite God into your dash and ask Him to make adjustments in your life to help you live in light of eternity.

Pursuing God,

Stephen Trammell
Executive Pastor