An article from HuffPost broke down the average human lifespan into hours spent doing everyday things—sleeping, eating, working, scrolling, cleaning, commuting, and looking for lost keys that were somehow in our hand the entire time. The numbers are staggering. We spend years asleep, years at work, and months deciding what to watch before rewatching the same show again.
When I was younger, I heard the unofficial “10,000-hour rule”: spend 10,000 hours doing something and you become an expert. By that logic, many of us should be world-class sleepers by now. Some are certainly experts at hitting snooze. Others have mastered folding laundry straight from the dryer and leaving it there for three days.
But life moves quickly. We spend enormous amounts of time doing things and still never quite achieve perfection. Even after thousands of hours of parenting, working, cooking, driving, or managing relationships, we still make mistakes. Experience helps, but expertise has limits. Human wisdom eventually runs into human weakness.
Psalm 90:2 says, “From everlasting to everlasting, You are God.” What a comfort. While we struggle to master even the basics of life, God has never needed practice. He has never learned by trial and error. He never miscalculates, forgets, overreacts, or needs a tutorial video.
Our lives are brief, but His understanding is eternal.
That’s why faith matters so deeply. We were never meant to carry life by our expertise alone. The One who created time stands outside of it. The One who formed the universe is not surprised by our confusion.
So maybe the goal of life isn’t becoming an expert at everything. Maybe it’s learning, day by day, to trust the One who already is.
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Spot on! Learning day by day to trust the One who already is.
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Thanks Grant!🙏👍🏻
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Wow! This is an eye-opener! So much time wasted on trivial things.
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True, true…if I spend 10,000 hours wasting time, I guess I’m an expert at it?😆
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It is too easy to fall into wasting time on trivial stuff like that game on our mobile phone…that was me playing scrabble recently, until I realised how much time I had wasted that could have been used in God’s Word. Thank you for sharing this encouraging message brother Eric. God bless you and your family today 🙏
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Yes…mine was golf. I still play it once in a while on my phone but it’s rare.😆 I’m playing for money that isn’t real against people I’ll never meet. Oh well, I’m thankful God knows how to move us in the right direction!👍🏻🙏
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The Lord gives us enough grace each day for one day at a time. Let’s take life one day at a time as the Lord gives it to us.
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Amen and amen!🙏
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Trusting that God’s provisions are enough would alleviate many stressful moments. 🙂
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That’s true…if he can handle numbering the sand, the stars, and the sparrows then he can handle little ol’ people like us. 😄
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😁
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