Expiration Date

The other day, my wife pulled out a gallon of milk and poured her a glass.  She picked up the glass to drink, but a puzzled frown came over her face.  She smelled the milk, and the puzzled frown became a scowl.  She handed me the glass of milk and said, “Taste this.  Does this seem spoiled to you?”  I pushed the glass away and said, “I’m not going to taste it if you think it’s spoiled!  Just pour it out!”  I examined the milk jug and, sure enough, it was a week past the “expiration date” that was printed on the plastic jug.  Yesterday heard a radio preacher speaking about manna that the Israelites had in the wilderness, and I realized that the manna also had an “expiration date” ... of one day!  Except on Fridays.  On Friday manna had an expiration date of two days!  Hey, there are many things in life that have expiration dates.  They aren’t like milk jugs; they aren’t printed anywhere, but there are expiration dates just the same.  There are limited times that you have to enjoy your children.  There is an expiration date on each of our lives.  There is a limited time that we have to work and save for the future.  And there is a limited time that we can work for the kingdom of God.  Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 3:1, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”  We have only a brief time to live here on earth, and then we must face our “expiration date”.  Hey, be ready for that “expiration date”.  Don’t let it catch you off guard and leave a sour taste in your mouth.  Get it?