Life is Short

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FACTS ABOUT OUR LIFE:

- 29,200 days if you live to 80
0If you sleep 8 hours a day for 80 years that means you have 9,733 days left to live (sleep makes up a third of your life)Most people will get a job that is 40 hours a week and will do this for 45 years which means you only have 3,900 days left to live (13 percent of your existence)If you attend school 8 hours a day 5 days a week for 44 weeks out of the year that amounts to 1,1000 days or 4% of your life
If you sleep 8 hours a day for 80 years that amounts to 9,733 days (sleep makes up a third of your life).
Which means you got 53 years left to live.
Most people will get a job that is 40 hours a week and will do this for 45 years that amounts to 3,900 days left to live (13 percent of your existence) (38 years left)
- Most people will get a job that is 40 hours a week and will do this for 45 years that amounts to 3,900 days left to live (13 percent of your existence)
If you attend school 8 hours a day 5 days a week for 44 weeks out of the year that amounts to 1,1000 days or 4% of your life.
If you add these days up it comes out to 50% of your life. So half of your whole life (if you make it to 80) is taken by sleep, school, and work.
If you add these days up it comes out to 50% of your life. So half of your whole life (if you make it to 80) is taken by sleep, school, and work.
So you have 50% of your life to live…well....

MORE FACTS ABOUT YOUR LIFE

The average American will spend about 2 years taking care of kids, or family
The typical young adult spends about 5 hours a day on your phone,, tv, computer. this adds up to 15 years of your life if you live to 80. (check)

Quality of life:

Work: According to a poll by GallUP 85% (but in America 70% of people) say that their work gives them know sense of purpose or meaning. Most hate/dislike their job but the few who like their job still feel like it does not give a feeling of purpose and meaning on this earth.
Most people are living for the weekend.... if you do that you will waste
Marriage - a bad marriage will obviously effect your quality of life.
According to the American Psychological Association says that 40-50% of married couples will divorce.
According to the American Psychological Association says that 40-50% of married couples will divorce.
Retirement: Many people say that they will enjoy their life when they retire… well 68% of people over 65 suffer some sort of disablement
Matthew 7:24–27 NKJV
24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. 26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

CONCLUSION:

I hope you see how important it is to find a purpose…. So much of your life is work….
God gives purpose to what you do in your career, purpose in your marriage, purpose in life
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