What If 2010 Was Your Last Year on Earth?
What would you do if you only had six more months to live? Who would you call more often? How would you spend your free time? How would you spend your money?
Someone once said, “Given a long enough timeline, we shall all be dead”. Life is so temporary. We are on earth for a season, yet for a reason. Why are you here? Have you found your mission yet? Have you found your calling yet? What would your legacy be if you took your last breath tonight?
I always fantasized about dying young when I was younger. I listened to Tupac and Biggie Smalls as they sang about their impending deaths. But death no longer excites me. I don’t get the same kick nowadays when I write my own obituary. Unfortunately, my death is just around the corner.
Knowing that I am only mortal helps me focus on the important things in life. I know I can be re-called to my maker anytime now so I have to make every moment count. Am I freaking you out?
Imagine the shock that Nelson Mandela must have had in 2001 when CNN pre-maturely (wrongly) published his pre-written obituary. CNN pulled down the webpage in 20 minutes but the damage had already been done.
Nelson Mandela was neither the first nor the last person to be pre-maturely declared dead. When Mark Twain was wrongly reported to be dead, this is what he famously said: “The report of my death has been grossly exaggerated”.
I know this a gloomy way to start the year, but stay with me.
When setting your 2010 resolutions (if you have not already done so), please keep in mind that you are only here for a season. Align your resolutions with your true mission in life.
If you found out that you were terminally ill, would you spend more time at the pub? Would you spend more time with your family? Would you travel the world? Would you try to make more money? What would you really do?
Find out what really matters and only do that. Your time is limited.
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i think about it alot….yet ironically, i can’t even write the word death lest i totally acknowledge that it’s always waiting in the wings……we are all alive because of God’s grace…..grace grace……it astounds me more than death….honestly what keeps this heart beating except grace?
what wakes me up every morning except grace sent from above? Everyday im confronted by thoughts of imperfection, and then the fear of dying begins to creep in, and i realize i don’t have a legacy, but when i think of grace, then i realize none of us deserves to live, or have what we have……..but for His grace.
And so despite my short comings, because of grace, i can boldly say that i shall live and not die, and declare God’s goodness, that i shall get His blessings to which He addeth no sorrow, that i shall rejoice in this day for it’s the day that Lord has made……because of grace……
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Dan, you are scaring me buddy!! I don’t want to think about death…
I want to live long!!! Like Methuselah!!!
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