The word for today is death.
“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring
forth” (Prov. 27:1).
“Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor
that appears for a little while and then vanishes away” (James 4:14).
“You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as
nothing before you. Each man’s life is but a breath. Selah” (Ps. 39:5).
“Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at
home in the body we are absent from the Lord—for we walk by faith, not by
sight—we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the
body and to be at home with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:6-8).
“‘O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’ The sting of
death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us
the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 15:55-57).
“Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Ps.
90:12).
“According to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall not be put to shame
in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ shall even now, as always, be
exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ, and
to die is gain. But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for
me; and I do not know which to choose. But I am hard-pressed from both
directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much
better” (Phil. 1:20-23).
Prayer: Lord, what joy springs up in my heart as I know that soon I will be
with You and be like You!