Bentley, the son of my friends Danny and Nikki, was able to come home Wednesday from the hospital, the place where he spent the first month of his life. Bentley had some tears in his lungs which caused him to not be able to breathe on his own. We are so thankful that God healed him and sustained his little body through so much trauma.
As I was reading in the Psalms a couple of weeks ago, I came across this verse in chapter 39 verse 5... "Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath!" This got me to thinking about how fragile life is, how we are truly just one breathe away from being ushered into eternity. Do I live life in light of this reality? Do I feel my complete dependence upon God for even my next breath? Do I evangelise with the mindset that all unbelievers are one breath away from eternal torment in hell? Am I living with a thankfulness and humility that I cannot keep myself alive, much less do a spiritual work in my heart that saves and sustains me? (which God has so graciously done!) All to often I do not. We are just as dependent on God for our next breath as Bentley was, and is! May we, along with Moses (who saw a lot of death in the wilderness as CJ Mahaney points out) pray, "teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom" (Ps 90:12). We are, after all, "a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes" (James 4:14).
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