{"id":831,"date":"2017-01-11T19:32:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=831"},"modified":"2017-01-11T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:32:09","slug":"resolved-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/resolved-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolved 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

25,915<\/strong><\/h1>\n

That is the number of days in the life of the average human. Reebok commissioned the study this past year, resulting in a fitness campaign with the motto \u201cHonor Your Days.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, according to Reebok, I have 10,918 days left. And while I must admit that I do find it motivational to know, according to Reebok, that I\u2019ve already lived 58% of my life, I find this passage below from DL Moody\u2019s The Overcoming Life<\/u><\/em>, even more inspiring to \u201clive a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God.\u201d (Colossians 1:10)<\/p>\n

\u201cMany are mentioned in Scripture of whom we read that they lived so many years and then they died. The cradle and the grave are brought close together. They lived and they died, and that is all we know about them. In these days, you could write on the tombstone of many professing Christians the date they were born and the date they died. There is nothing in between. <\/em><\/p>\n

You can\u2019t bury a good man\u2019s influence. It lives on. They have not buried Daniel. His influence is as great today as it ever was. Do you tell me that Joseph is dead? His influence still lives and will continue to live on and on. You can bury the frail house of clay that a good man lives in, but you can\u2019t get rid of his influence and example. Paul was never more powerful than he is today. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Do you tell me that John Howard, who went into so many of the dark prisons in Europe, is dead? Is Henry Martyn, or William Wilberforce, or John Bunyan dead? Go into the southern states, and there you will find millions of men and women who once were slaves. Mention to any of them the name of Wilberforce, and see how quickly their faces light up. He lived for something beside himself, and his memory will live on in the hearts of those for whom he lived and labored. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Are Wesley or Whitefield dead? The names of those great evangelists were never more honored than they are now. Is John Knox dead? You can go to any part of Scotland today and feel the power of his influence. The enemies of these servants of God are dead. Those who persecuted them and told lies about them are dead. But the men themselves have outlived all the lies that were uttered concerning them. Not only that, but they will also shine in another world.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/em>With 2017 having just begun, and with it another 365 opportunities to daily \u201clive for something other than yourself so your memory will live on in the hearts of those for whom you lived and labored,\u201d we would be wise to recall the words of the late C.T. Studd<\/a>,<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly one life, yes only one,
\nSoon will its fleeting hours be done;
\nThen, in \u2018that day\u2019 my Lord to meet,
\nAnd stand before His Judgment seat;
\nOnly one life, \u2019twill soon be past,
\nOnly what\u2019s done for Christ will last.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

25,915 That is the number of days in the life of the average human. Reebok commissioned the study this past year, resulting in a fitness campaign with the motto \u201cHonor Your Days.\u201d So, according to Reebok, I have 10,918 days left. And while I must admit that I do find it motivational to know, according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-living"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mailchimp-Blog-600x300.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mailchimp-Blog-600x300.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Kent Husted","author_link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/author\/khusted\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}