What did you do yesterday? Usually that question meets with a list a mile long or, “Nothin’ much.” Living life is funny like that. An entire day can go past in an instant or two. There will always be some time tomorrow for this or that. I know I have got about a dozen things that I have put off till then. What if that time never came tomorrow?
Most of my life I have heard this or that group of Christians talking about the end of the world. I am not talking about that; there are enough normal everyday events to accomplish so dramatic a conclusion. Suppose that you were planing to have lunch with a friend tomorrow, what if you got hit by a car and it caused permanent brain damage and you could no longer speak? What if you were planing to share the Gospel with someone after a quick food run and they got hit by a car, blacked out, and never woke up? People can fall down a long staircase and land on their heads? Think about it. You are only one bump on the head away from never being able to talk to someone about God again: either your head or the person you want to talk to does. Thats kinda scary isn’t it? We are often so busy living that we forget that we all die from it.
What if you slipped on the stairs coming in tonight and woke up brain damaged? Nothing says loving God ends all the pain of life – in fact saying Jesus is God used to get you killed. Is it too simple to believe in silence?
Yeah it is. I cannot know where you are at with this, but I know that the urgency of life comes and goes in accordance to how much death surrounds me. But check this out – Jesus said, “Die to yourself and follow me.” The urgency of life comes and goes in accordance to how much death surrounds me; God died for me and His death surrounds me on all sides covering me. I may fall down and injure myself to the end of my ministry, but if I have lived my life up to this point in preparation for my eventual death and surrounded in the death of Jesus, then I can look back and say, “Cool, God did something there.” Anything else ends up with me wanting just one more day so that I can cross off the dozens of things I have put off till the tomorrow I will never get.
~JCPunk
