{"id":584,"date":"2018-02-08T01:07:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T22:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2018-06-15T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T10:02:44","slug":"numbering-my-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Numbering My Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the small notes the girls sneaked into my lunch bag this morning to a wife (an angel-on-loan to me, if you asked me) who has been travailing and beseeching heaven on my behalf since the year begun, to the surprise birthday celebration that my co-laborers pulled off (and I thought I was going to the board room for a strategy meeting;-), I have been reminded that mine is a life truly blessed. I\u2019ve always lived with a sense of urgency and for no particular reason did not think I would live to be 40. And now am 43. I still live with a sense of urgency but more so with eternity in mind. Every single day, am reminded that I should be about redeeming the time or what Moses (in Psalm 90) called \u201cnumbering my days.\u201d Reason: That I might attain to wisdom. A very sobering thought. If the 70 years of a “normal” lifespan were squeezed into a single day, it would be round about 3pm in the late afternoon of my life. Am now closer to Sundown than First Light. And I must glance at the clock every so often.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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