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How Will I Spend My 75 Years?
(slightly edited)Statisticians tell us that the average life span is now around 75 years. A few years ago, someone went to the trouble to research what people do with their time. If we live to be 75, most of us will have spent:
- 3 years, 24 hours a day, acquiring an education — grade school, high school, college.
- 7 years eating, 24 hours a day — some more, some less, obviously.
- 14 years, day and night, working.
- 5 years riding in automobiles or airplanes.
- 5 years talking with each other — again some more and some less.
- 1 year sick or recovering from sickness.
- 24 years of our life sleeping!
- 3 years reading books, magazines, and newspapers.
- 12 years amusing ourselves — watching TV, going to the movies, fishing, etc.
That totals to 75 years. As I looked at these statistics I began thinking. Let us suppose that you spent every Sunday of your life, for 75 years — through infancy, childhood, adulthood, old age — worshipping during two church services each Lord's day. Now if you did, how much time would you have spent worshipping God? Figure it out — the answer is less than 11 months. Let's double it because you have always attended two Bible classes a week. If you have never missed a Bible class in all your life, that still just totals 11 months.
Think about that — 5 years in an automobile and just 22 months in church! Twelve years amusing ourselves in front of a TV, and just 22 months in church. And that is if you have always attended and never missed! That tells us a little bit about the brevity of time and our priorities in life.
