Yesterday I learned that my
friend Harry Hanger was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease. As my friend
Bill DeWorken and I prayed for Harry I remarked to Bill how fragile life is and
observed, “We don’t have today promised to us, we don’t even have the next hour
promised to us.”
We do have eternity promised
to us in Christ Jesus, and we do have the promise that whatever today holds for
us that Jesus will be with us, but beyond those assurances mists cloud our
horizons.
On the one hand we will all
physically die, the exception being the generation alive when Jesus returns. On
the other hand, those who have eternal life living in them through a
relationship with Jesus Christ will never taste death – even when they die they
won’t die – that is the promise of Jesus.
Those in Christ live with
trust and confidence and no longer fear death, in fact they look forward to
eternity. And yet, we also live with the knowledge that life is fragile and
that our time here is both limited and precious and that we should not waste
it. Today does not belong to me, it belongs to my Lord Jesus – how will I live
it?
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