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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crosswalk devotional. We're glad to have you

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Speaker 2: listening with us. Today's topic is about numbering our days

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Speaker 2: and focusing on the few things that matter. We'll return

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Speaker 2: with the devotional after a brief message from our sponsors,

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Speaker 2: Numbering our Days written and read by Cindy mcmanumon, So

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Speaker 2: teach us to number our days, that we may present

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Speaker 2: to you a heart of wisdom, Psalm ninety, verse twelve,

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Speaker 2: New American Standard Bible. Does your to do list seem

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Speaker 2: overwhelming at times? Whether you keep yours on paper like

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Speaker 2: I still do and relish the joy of cross seen

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Speaker 2: through each task, or your list exists in the note

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Speaker 2: section of your phone or on the inside of your mind.

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Speaker 2: We all feel that burdening sense of all that we

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Speaker 2: must do. I realize some of it is important. If

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Speaker 2: you don't grocery shop, what will you eat? If laundry

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Speaker 2: isn't done, what will you wear? If the project isn't

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Speaker 2: sectioned out in steps and worked on daily, when will

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Speaker 2: it be completed? Yet? What on that list daily will

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Speaker 2: matter a year from now, ten years from now, or

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Speaker 2: in the scope of eternity. Somehow, somewhere, the almighty to

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Speaker 2: do list rose up before us and called itself God,

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Speaker 2: and we continue to bow down to it. Having been

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Speaker 2: raised with a strong work ethic. I used to find

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Speaker 2: it difficult to be unproductive, even when I was on

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Speaker 2: vacation or when I was feeling worn down and my

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Speaker 2: body was saying rest. It used to be more difficult

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Speaker 2: for me to slow down and not get things done

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Speaker 2: than to muster up the motivation to do them. Yet

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Speaker 2: the older I get, the more joy I am experiencing

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Speaker 2: in putting aside the to do list and prioritizing people

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Speaker 2: over productivity. In Psalm ninety, verse twelve, Moses asked God

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Speaker 2: to help him realize his days are numbered so he

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Speaker 2: could live wisely. In the message translation, that verse reads, Oh,

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Speaker 2: teach us to live wisely. Teach us to live wisely

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Speaker 2: and well. Moses, a man whom Scripture says communed with

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Speaker 2: God face to face, realized his need to not get

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Speaker 2: caught up in meaningless tasks during the day, but to

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Speaker 2: live wisely for the sake of eternity. If Moses prayed

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Speaker 2: for that priority, check how much more should we intersecting

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Speaker 2: faith in life? What if you and I were to

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Speaker 2: number our days instead of our tasks. What if we

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Speaker 2: were to make a list of what we wanted to

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Speaker 2: do wisely and well each day and before we leave

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Speaker 2: this earth, rather than focus on all of them meaningless

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Speaker 2: tasks that seem to be setting our schedules and ruling

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Speaker 2: our days and minds. When you and I get to

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Speaker 2: heaven one day, there will not be a reward for

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Speaker 2: the amount of money we made or how efficient we

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Speaker 2: were on our jobs while we lived on this earth.

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Speaker 2: There will not be accolades for the number of followers

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Speaker 2: we had on social media, or the number of hits

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Speaker 2: on our website or the number of cliques on our

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Speaker 2: Instagram videos. There won't be any kudos for having the

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Speaker 2: loveliest seasonal decorations, of being the most organized member of

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Speaker 2: the team, or accomplishing the most at the company. All

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Speaker 2: that we tend to honor, or strive for, or prioritize

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Speaker 2: here on this earth doesn't mean much to God in

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Speaker 2: the scope of eternity. In Micah six', eight we are

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Speaker 2: told What god. Honors he has told, you mortal, one

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Speaker 2: what is good and what does The lord require of?

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Speaker 2: You but to do, justice to love, kindness and to

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Speaker 2: walk humbly with Your, god to do, justly love, kindness

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Speaker 2: and walk humbly With. God amounts to tasks that benefit.

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Speaker 2: Others it involves. Serving it involves assignments that might not

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Speaker 2: be on the list at, all but rather compete with

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Speaker 2: our tasks and add to our frustrations at being inconvenienced or.

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Speaker 2: Delayed god works on a different timeline than we, do

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Speaker 2: so that might be Why he isn't sympathetic toward our, rush, rush,

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Speaker 2: rush and it might be why he continues to convict

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Speaker 2: our hearts to slow way. Down god gave us enough

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Speaker 2: hours in the day to do all that's needed to

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Speaker 2: fulfill our purpose In, him to Love him and, others

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Speaker 2: and Glorify him in all we. Do the things that

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Speaker 2: may seem necessary to you on your list might not

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Speaker 2: be that important To, him or to anyone else for that.

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Speaker 2: Matter sometimes we put more pressure on ourselves than we need, To,

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Speaker 2: yet as much as we'd like to walk away from,

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Speaker 2: it we often let that blasted piece of paper or

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Speaker 2: that running list on our phones or in the back

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Speaker 2: back of our minds dictate how much we will enjoy,

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Speaker 2: life how much time we will spend in a phone

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Speaker 2: call or visit with a friend or family, member and

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Speaker 2: how much time we will spend on tasks that don't

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Speaker 2: look like accomplishment to the, world but represent wealth to

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Speaker 2: The Lord. Lord help us to focus on the few

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Speaker 2: things that really. Matter help us bring balance to our

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Speaker 2: list of tasks by making sure that people related activities

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Speaker 2: are on. There don't let us waste our lives on,

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Speaker 2: paperwork computer, work or busy work that won't amount to

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Speaker 2: anything in. Eternity help us to number our days by

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Speaker 2: making sure they are filled with purpose as we number our.

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Speaker 2: Lists for further, reading See matthew six nineteen twenty and

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Speaker 2: for help prioritizing your day With, jesus see my Book

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Speaker 2: The New Loneliness, Devotional Fifty days to A Closer connection With.

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