No coincidence

This morning I opened my bible to Psalms and this is what I read: "O Lord, make me know my end and what is the end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!" Ps. 39:4 

Then I opened this book I've started called "A Place of Quiet Rest" by Nancy DeMoss and in my reading I read this quote by seventeenth-century preacher Lewis Bayly: "But it may be thou wilt say, that thy business will not permit thee so much time, as to read every morning a chapter.  O man, remember that thy life is but short, and that all this business is but for the use of this short life; but salvation or damnation is everlasting! Rise up, therefore, every morning by so much time the earlier: defraud thy foggy flesh of so much sleep; but rob not thy soul of her food, nor God of His service; and serve the Almighty duly whilst thou hast time and health."

Now I don't believe in coincidences when it comes to stuff like that.  None of knows the length of our time on this earth.  Truth be told I hope it's not some warning that I'm about to go pretty soon!  I DID think about that of course. 

Only God knows. 

But either way, I took it as a reminder to care about and invest in what is of eternal value!  And also to make it a habit to keep getting my "foggy flesh" up out of the bed in the mornings.  Not as some duty that I can check off of my legalistic to-do list.  

But because He will, "Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days." Ps. 90:14