The Time is Now

Show me, O LORD, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life. Psalm 39:4

This morning I received some sad news. A family member had died last night. Slightly shocking, but at the same time we all knew it was coming. Death is not a surprise to those who are old and those around them, but what about those who die "before their time." It is a shock, we are stopped dead in our tracks, utterly perplexed how someone young could pass. Each time it happens we wake up and realize maybe we do not have our whole lives to do something, but this realization leaves as soon as it comes.

How often have you had someone your age or younger, let's say college aged tell you that they will "do God" later, you know, when they are married, have a career and kids. Seems like the best time to follow God, after you do everything you desire to do. Do you or they know that God wants them to follow Him now?

Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that. James 4:13-15

A little over a year ago I was in a car accident while heading to church. I had planned on making it to Jr High small groups that night, but God had very different plans. I turned on what I thought to be a green arrow, when a motorcyclist hit the back of my car in cross traffic. She did not make it through, that night Miheala Zagoni died. She was 26 years old and had been riding her motorcycle for only 3 weeks, this girl had some serious plans. She had recently graduated from college as an architect and had a good job and now was taking up riding a motorcycle. Where ever she had planned on going that night, she did not make it there, God had very different plans.

We cannot trust in our lives because we do not know how long our lives will be. This is the time, now is the time to surrender our lives to God and put our trust in Him. We are born into a state of depravity, children of wrath as it says in Ephesians, deserving hell, but God came down in the form of man, Jesus Christ, to take on the punishment we so deserve after living a perfect life of no sin nailing it to a cross, so that we may gain salvation into the Kingdom of Heaven. Imagine, the eternity of hell for all those who become saved poured out onto one man. Being a christian and "doing the God thing" is not just going to church and raising your family to believe in God, it is a way of life, a life that no longer belongs to you. Please, I implore you to get rid of the worlds way of viewing God, because you do not know if you will make it to the end of this blog!

Christians! For us this means we need to be sharing the Gospel because it saves souls! I had never heard the gospel until I was 17 years old and praise God I lived long enough for someone to share it with me! Because whether death or Christ's return, which ever comes first, there is no "time" because the time is now.