I read about an Internet site that will calculate how long you are going to live. You go to the site and answer a series of questions such as age, gender, health, whether you smoke, drink, or exercise. The site then calculates when you are going to die and provides a count down service that you can keep running. Of course the site cannot take into consideration things such as auto accidents, natural disasters or undiagnosed diseases, but you get the idea. I’m told it’s a little disconcerting to watch the remaining minutes, hours and days of your life click away. The truth in all this is that we all have a limited amount of time left and we need to decide how to spend it.

The Old Testament prophet Micah first asked and then answered the question of what God wants us to do. He wrote, “What does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”

In the New Testament, the Apostle Peter addressed the same issue: “Since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin. As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. ”

Peter’s advice is, “As your clock of life ticks down, don’t live for evil human desires. Live to do the will of God!”