Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit."
Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that."
2 Corinthians 5...just read it. not going to post the whole thing. It's about temporal things and eternal things.
So for the past few weeks, it didn't last just one…, I have been contemplating different themes of death. Many people try to avoid the topic. It isn't exactly a happy conversation and can be considered a buzz kill. However, for one reason or another I have been forced to think about and listen to different aspects of death.
I have already written two posts on things that I tend to hold on to or feel that I need full control over. One being food and clothing and basic needs. The other is money. Well over three weeks I have realized that I desperately cling to life as well.
Not only do I cling to my life and live in fear of the coming passing, but I also cling to the lives of those with whom I am closest. I am terrified of loosing someone or being lost myself. I have this irrational fear of cars driving by me at night. I am ALWAYS afraid that someone is going to pull out a gun and shoot me in the back, and I will lay there slowly loosing blood and dying.
Crazy right?! It has only increased since I moved over here and walk everywhere I go, usually in the dark. What do I have to fear? I just recently finished reading Harry Potter Deathly Hallows. Dumbledore has a firm belief that death is not the worst thing that could ever happen to someone. I have to agree with him. However, I have to add an amendment…death is not the worst thing that could happen to a person who has faith in Jesus Christ. I believe that for a person who does not believe in Christ, death is the worst possible thing that could happen to them.
I cling to my life and the lives of those closest to me. Ironically, I know that all of those people, myself included, will spend eternity after death with the Father. I should be clinging to the lives of those that I know who don't believe as I do, making the most of every opportunity.
We are but a vapor. Here today and gone tomorrow. This life is not ours to possess but to share. Look at the people around you not as temporal beings you have to endure until you can leave this world. Look at them as eternal beings who will spend eternity in one place, with God in His presence, or another, without God forever, without His presence and all of His attributes.
Live your life in such a way that people are drawn to Him. For those of us who are like minded we have a SHORT time here to have as big of an impact for His Kingdom as possible. At the end of our lives we will stand before Him and give an account for what we have been doing. We are forgiven, but how much greater could your reward be?
Death is NOT the end! For SOME it will be the beginning of eternal joy and peace, for MANY it will be the beginning of eternal sorrow and torment. My life is so short. I cannot afford to waste any time not living for Him. Not proclaiming Him and giving HIM all the glory for MY life.
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