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Reflect on the passage of time and the importance of living wisely with biblical verses urging introspection and seeking a purposeful life filled with service, righteousness, and wisdom. Embrace a better life by trusting in the LORD and enriching your spirit with humility.
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It is a better life! How are we living our life?
Psa 90:12 “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom”
Job 14:1 “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble”
Psa 39:4 “LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am”
Psa 90:12 “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom”
Gen 47:9 “And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years…
Gen 47:9 …of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage”
Matt 22:32 “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living”
Descriptions given to life. 2 Sam 14:14 Job 14:2 Job 9:25 Job 7:6 Jas 4:14 Psa 90:10
2 Sam 14:14 “For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.”
Job 14:2 “He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”
Job 9:25 “Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.”
Job 7:6 “My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.”
James 4:14 “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”
Psa 90:10 “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”
Psa 92:12-14 “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house…
Psa 92:12-14 …of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing”
Job 32:7 “I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.”
Prov 16:31“The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.”
Rev 2:10 “Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life”
Prov 11:30 “They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight”
Psa 118:8 “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man”
Eccl. 7:5 “It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.”
Eccl 7:8 “Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”
Matt 18:8 “Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire””
Eccl 5:5 “Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.”
Prov 21:19 “It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.”
Eccl 7:1 “A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth”
Prov 8:11 “For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.”
Prov 16:19 “Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud”
Heb 8:6 “But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.”
It is better! to trust in the LORD
It is better! to hear the rebuke of the wise
It is better! the end of a thing and the patient in spirit
It is better! for thee to enter into life
It is better! to not promise than not pay
It is better! To have a good name
It is better! To have wisdom
It is better! To have a humble spirit