Consider this: you only have so many heart beats left before your heart beats it’s last one and that’s it for you. Or look at this way: you only have a set number of days remaining before your last day arrives and you’re gone.
In either case, you may have many beats or many days left to you or just a handful — you could be gone before this day is done.
Jesus, said, in effect, restrict your perspective on your life. Limit it to a single day because each day has enough trouble of its own. He calls us to live like we have only 24 hours left to us with the corresponding fixed number of minutes and seconds.
But perhaps more significantly is that this means we have only so much time — just today — to think the limited number of thoughts that we can think in 24 hours. A new study I read about on the human brain suggests that the average person has about 6,200 individual thoughts every day.*
Add to that the truth that what we do with our thoughts determines the development of our character and impacts our life after death. The apostle Paul put it this way: be “transformed by the renewing of your mind” and he writes that “godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.” (Romans 12:2;1 Timothy 4:8 (NIV))
So we are to live as having only this day — only about 6,000 thoughts left to us — to think the thoughts that will profoundly impact our lives now and forever.
This brings us to the all-important question: what thoughts are so important that we must make sure to think them today?
The Apostle Paul gives us this general directive:
“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”   Colossians 3:1-2 (NIV)
Notice that he repeats “things above.”
What are those things? I suggest we could condense them down to these: the reality of God’s presence with us, his incommensurable goodness, and his self-sacrificial love.
Presently, I can think if no better mental activity behind the scenes of our day to day routines than to always be bringing our hearts and thoughts back to these.
* (https://themighty.com/2020/07/study-how-many-thoughts-per-day/)

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