We've all heard the saying "Time flies when you are having fun". Well, to be honest, I think I'm seeing something else as I get older. Time flies...no matter what.

I mean a typical year is here and gone before you know it anymore. We celebrate New Years. Before they even get the party hats off the shelves we are seeing Valentines boxes of candy and hearts everywhere. Mixed in with the hearts we can usually find a couple of four leaf clovers and then some American Flags. Before you know it we are buying fireworks, then school clothes then some ghosts and gobblins. Then it's off to Turkeys and before we know it, the Christmas decorations have been hung by the fireplace with care.

Then rinse and repeat.

See, I've already taken you through a year in just one paragraph. Crazy isn't it? And of course the biggest bummer of it as that the older we get, the faster time seems to fly.

Well, I don't know about you but it has certainly opened my eyes to several things. For one, it has put some teeth on the Scripture found in James 4:14 which says "What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes". Yup, that about sums it up. Here today and gone tomorrow.

But the second thing it has done for me is to force me to look at my life and decide what I'm going to do with it. Am I going to just go along each day worrying about my family and myself. Doing what I want in my own little world so that when my mist finally does disappear that there is nothing to show for it?

Or, am I going to step up and do something with my life? Am I going to embrace my God given purpose to try and reach as many people for Him as I can? Am I going to try and get out of my comfort zone and and go to places where I know I can do nothing on my own and have to completely rely on God? Basically, am I going to do something meaningfull with my life or not?

You've probably all heard the "proverb" (non Biblical one) that talks about the dash. You know, the one that says on a persons head stone they will have two numbers. One, the year they are born. The other, the year they died. But the most important part of that is the dash inbetween. The years we live.

What are you doing with your life? What are you doing that will impact the Kingdom of God?

The most amazing part about working for God and His Kingdom, is that the things that we do for Him not only have a fantastic impact on this day and age and in the lives of those we reach, but the things done for God's Kingdom echo throughout eternity. You can have no greater impact than that.

None of us know how long we have on this earth. Death is the only real certainty that we can count on. But until that day, until our mist vanishes, what will you do with yours?