Day 57 — My Life
The days God gives us eventually become the life we lived.
Day 57 — My Life
Psalm 23:6 - “…all the days of my life.”
David has given us a lot to think about so far. This whole verse has been so powerful and packed with meaning: “Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life.” We’ve thought about “all”, about “the days” and now we come to two of the most personal words in the sentence: “my life.”
There is a difference between living days for God and living a life for Him.
Every one of us is given days. We wake up, go to work, take care of our chores and responsibilities, eat, sleep, spend time with people we love and do it all over again. But eventually those individual days become something bigger. They become our life.
And that raises a much bigger question. Now it’s time to make this real and personal: What is your life about?
We can spend our days doing a bunch of stuff and never stop to ask that question. We can spend our lives pursuing success, chasing security, relaxing in comfort, enjoying our possessions, or just trying to make it through another week. None of those things are necessarily wrong but they were never meant to become the reason that we live.
Paul said something that has always been a challenge for me in Philippians 1:21: “For to me, to live is Christ…”
Paul wasn’t just teaching a theology class there. He was describing his life.
Romans 12:1 gives us a picture of what that looked like: “Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God…”
Paul wasn’t suggesting that we give God some of our days—just a portion of our lives. He was calling us to present our lives to God.
That’s different.
If we think of Christianity as something we add to our lives—a Sunday morning, a prayer before bed, a Bible reading, a few good deed, Jesus becomes an accessory to our lives. He isn’t interested in that. He calls us to give Him our lives.
The days God gives us eventually become the life we lived. So perhaps the question isn’t, “What did I do today?” Maybe the deeper question is, “What am I doing with my life?”
If you had to describe your life in one sentence, what would you say? Would you be able to say with Paul, “For to me, to live is Christ”?
That’s a worthy goal for every one of us. Not a perfect life. Not a famous life. Not even an easy life. Just a life that belongs to Christ.
Some day, our days will finally be behind us. What will matter most isn’t how many days we were given, but what we did with the life those days became.
So take a moment today and ask yourself: What is my life about? Then ask God to make the answer increasingly simple:
“Lord, let my life be about You.”
And now we’re ready for David’s ultimate answer to where he wants that life to be: “And I will dwell…”
