I once asked a young believer how he would spend the rest of his life if Jesus suddenly appeared to him with the information that he had one month to live. He giggled and said “…Well, I will quickly do what I know I won’t have the opportunity to do in heaven. So if I have just one month to go, I will get married before my time is up…”
Hmnnnh! Although this response seemed funny, I was particularly interested the fact that there are so many good things we won’t have the opportunity to do in heaven despite its glamour. If you were to answer the same question, how would your response be? Permit me to guess …
Praying and Bible reading may become more regular.
The walls of your church may easily recognize you when you are 20km away.
Church meetings may now look so short.
Your postponed kind gestures to extend to others may suddenly begin to unfold.
The poor may even feel your impact.
Your parents may suddenly be remembered for good.
The worries and fear of what your tomorrow will be may fizzle into the air.
You may exercise greater passion and attention towards your ministry.
Holiness may erupt out of your system with ease.
Your spouse may now see you as a genuine love being.
Your children may now notice the difference in the size of your right and left arm.
There may be no need for bad-mouthing and gossiping.
Prolonged anger may no longer be necessary.
You may decide to apologize to everyone you have offended in time past, and also say goodbye to grudges and resentment.
The courage to witness to that unbeliever close to you may swiftly engulf you…
You are free to draw up your list, remember I was only trying to guess. If you can identify those things you will quickly want to do if you were sure you had just a month to live, then it is high time you began to do them. Stop postponing your manifestation. Let it be real to you that you time on earth is getting shorter and shorter. “…I urge you as strangers and aliens in the world to …live such good lives among the pagans…” I Peter 2:11-12 (NIV).
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