LIFE IS BUT A BREATH By Robert Soto (Published in an email from Words From the Creator)

LIFE IS BUT A BREATH
By Robert Soto
Published in an email from Words From the Creator

November 18, 2009

Psalm 39:4-5 "Show me, O LORD, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life. 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."

I'm not sure when it happened but it seems like one day I woke up and it was fifty-seven years later. Life seems to be flying by as the wind and each year seems to pass like days and each day passes like seconds. Sometimes I am afraid to blink for fear that ten years will disappear from my life. So the question always comes: what are you doing with your life? We live each day like tomorrow has no end, like we forget that tomorrow is just around the corner and life as we know it to be, will soon come to an end. So the question always lingers on - what am I doing with my life? Is the life I have and live day by day a life that brings honor to the God who created us? Is the life we life day by day a productive life that brings joy and contentment to others?

There are a lot of questions that can be asked. There are a lot of things that need to be done. The other day as I passed through a cemetery and the wind was blowing through the trees it seemed like I heard the following: "Here lie thousands whose dreams were never complete." As I drove away that day I prayed that I would not be one of those who will one day pass to the other side and leave this earth unfulfilled and discontented. David asked God the Creator the following question, "Show me, O LORD, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life. 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." I am not sure I would ask God to reveal to me the number of my days, but one thing I have learned is that we should live each day as if this one is our last one. Live each day not so much with eternal plans, but asking God the Creator how I can give Him my best now and in whatever days I might have.

Robert Soto, Lipan Apache and pastor of:

McAllen Grace Brethren Church
The Native American New Life Center
Chief of Chiefs Christian Church