LIFE IS SHORT – Finding God’s Peace in All Circumstances – Daily Devotional – Little Big Things

Because life is so short, we can't afford to waste time struggling and learning things the hard way. Let's learn to find God's peace in ALL circumstances.
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Scripture References:
https://biblehub.com/luke/23-46.htm
https://biblehub.com/psalms/31-5.htm
https://biblehub.com/bsb/psalms/31.htm

Video Text:
Life is short. Our lives have so little time and our journey is brief. Because life is so short, we can’t afford to waste time struggling and learning things the hard way. Instead, let’s discover the easy way to live a full life, a life filled with God’s peace, by using a secret clue hidden inside one little-known sentence in the Bible, but scattered in plain view on many of the ancient hills throughout Israel’s countryside.

Let’s unlock the secret by imagining several thousand years ago, walking through the Israeli country with your small band of family and friends, looking for a place to call home. You would have three essential requirements: fresh spring water, fertile land near a trade route and a strategically defensible hilltop where you would build your homes and settle down.

Over time the king or ruler would build a wall on the perimeter of the hill to surround and protect the homes. As the town grew, it would eventually become an attractive prize for invading armies. After an invader plundered and destroyed the buildings, many years would pass and eventually, new people would come back to these same strategic sites (because the water, the fertile land and the defensible hill were still essential) where they would rebuild new, bigger walls on the old foundations and then rebuild their homes inside the relative safety of those walls.

As the century’s passed, the hills would get bigger and bigger as larger towns and small cities were built on top of the refuse of the old ones. Modern day archeologists call these ancient hills a “tel” – like the modern city of Tel Aviv, in Israel.

When you walk on these hills and tels, you cannot help but to immediately see jagged, broken bits of pottery scattered all over the ground. These pottery pieces are clearly not stones but are man-made as their sides look rounded, formed and shaped like a cup or a plate to hold water or food.

I put three small pieces of broken pottery in my pocket and brought them home as souvenirs. Then I set them on my windowsill where they sat untouched and unthought of for about a year-and-a-half.

But the other day when I was in the middle of my prayer-time, for some unknown reason, I noticed and put them in my hand and began to contemplate: Who created this pottery – was it family made or purchased from a shop keeper? Was this once a cup, a bowl or a plate? How did these pieces break? Were these pieces two, three or four thousand years old, and how long had it been since anyone gave any thought to the people who used this once valuable property?

Then my thoughts shifted to my own relatives, as I thought of how little that I really knew about my own grandparents, and how I knew almost nothing, not even the names of my great-grandparents. All these thoughts certainly made me think, “Life is so short.”

I’m sure I held these broken pottery pieces for a half hour as I contemplated the brevity of life. Especially, how I make such a big deal out of little things, how much struggle there can be in life. I thought about my brother, Mike, and my dad, both of whom had died just a few years ago. I thought about my family and possessions – my job, home and plans for the day – how all of it is so fleeting compared to eternity....

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