I just turned 69 years old on August 21, 2023. Betty and I celebrated 50 years of marriage three days before that. Those are some big numbers. 

I learned to count my days when I started the ministry years ago. We never know how long God will give us life, but I found these verses.

Psalm 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. 12 So teach us to number our days, That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Notice that the days of our years are 70, and if because of strength, they might even be 80. What we do for God is limited by how long we live. I need to use every day as if it were my last.

Matthew 6:34 tells us. 

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

All we have is today. We can’t undo what happened yesterday. All we can do is confess our sins, trust His forgiveness, and work today. We can’t do anything tomorrow because it never gets here. Today has its bears to fight, its giants to kill. 

I am not to worry about what I will do tomorrow. And though this goes so much against the grain, even our plans and goals are to be laid with great care and looking to God and His will. James 4 clarifies that we do not know what is going to happen tomorrow. One day, one is all He gives us. In the Bible, the emphasis is on one day. 

Give us this day our daily bread. He loads us daily with benefits. We are to take up our cross daily. 

So do today what you can and then do it again tomorrow if he gives you another day. Number your days. Count your days and make your days count.