Summary: <br> You have a balance. What’s remaining of your life. The number of days you have left to live.<br> We all have one, this unknown balance. A number we can’t see, but everyday is another one down.<br> What we can see are the ones we have already spent. We can look back and count the days that turned into years and do nothing about them now. Now those days are spent. Proudly or poorly, either way, they’re done.<br> I had the honor of sitting with my Daddy at the end of the Summer and recounting his life. He shared with me his greatest days and proudest investments of time. And he told me about the part of his life he spent poorly. The investment he made in a job where he was miserable and he could never get that time back. What awaited him was an amazing and successful business he would build on his own, but before then he was afraid to take the leap and spent years working for an unfair man in a dead end job. But he couldn’t see what was ahead, and looking back he realized that part of his life was spent poorly.<br> How are you spending your life?<br> Can you look back and see times spent poorly?<br> Will you look back on today, right now this season you’re in, and see it was wasted? Or will you be proud of your investment of time and how you spent it?<br> You have a balance of your days allotted, and every day you’re spending one, no matter what you do. You can’t save up this day and hold it’s availability for another day. No, hour by hour it’s being spent. Time is running right through your fingers and you can’t hold it back. All you can do is spend it better.<br> Our prayer today is, Father, show me how to spend this life.<br> Show me how to see this treasure for what it is. The value of a day. The preciousness of a moment. The speed of it all.<br> Life goes by so fast, and the older we get, the faster it goes. Do you understand why time seems to go faster and faster? It’s not a phenomenon only you experience, we all do. It’s because the older you get, the more you have in your spent column. When you compare today to what you’ve already spent, today gets smaller and smaller when the spent column grows longer. I’ve lived 44 years. When compare this one year to those I have already lived, it goes fast because I so much to compare it to. When I was 22, there was half the amount to compare a year to, so it went about half as fast.<br> Life is NOT going to slow down for you. It only goes faster from here. You imagine you may have 20, 30, 40 good years of life left and you estimate their speed at your current pace, but you’re wrong. They will go by faster. Faster and faster and faster.<br> Just like money used to go further than it does today, a day used to go further as well. We have less and less time with an ever shrinking balance.<br> Show me how to spend this life.<br> David Dunn sings these lyrics:<br> All I have is what you gave<br> Watching seconds turn to days<br> I was made for more than just to watch it fly<br> A few more turns around the sun<br> Could be hundreds could be one<br> Show me how to spend the treasure of my time<br> Show me how to spend a life<br> We get one of these. One life. We have been spending it whether intentionally or not. There’s no Dave Ramsey savings plan here. You can’t save up your life. You can only spend it well.<br> How many of us are saving up life? Saving up for that special occasion where we will light the candles and break out the fancy dishes. Saving up for some day in the future when we will wear the expensive perfume and try those fake lashes. Living day after day as our favorite fancy panties go unworn.<br> I grew up with a box of dishes that followed us to every new house Daddy built for us. This box was unopened. These dishes were being saved for a special occasion, and literally untouched.
