Mortality

I get the feeling God is trying to remind me of my mortality. Or maybe how temporary this life is and what this blink-of-an-eye existence should be used for. Last week one of my coworkers lost her son, so I found myself in the midst of suffering and grief. My pastor was out last week due to a death in his family, and this Sunday he told us that a dear friend had died that same week. He preached on the importance of salvation in light of death. I will post a link to it when they get it up on the churches website. You should really take the thirty minutes or so to listen to it. To continue this string of events that are reminding me of my mortality, I got to work this morning and my coworker was relaying all the ways she and her family received an outpouring of God’s love displayed through the people around them. It is really amazing to hear, a week later, how God is carrying her. She knows that she will meet her son again. God’s peace is so amazing and unexplainable. To cap it all off I turn on my iPod to listen to some music to get my mind off of death. I put the thing on random and, of course, what song pops up? “I’ll Fly Away.” That’s right. God is surrounding me with proof of man’s mortality (which can really be easy to ignore), and I will pay attention.

I will die someday. We all will die someday. That day could be today or in ninety years. I know where I am going. I know that I have been saved by God’s grace and mercy even though I do not deserve it, and because of that, I will go to be with my Lord and Savior. I would hope and pray that all of you who read this would examine yourselves to make sure your life shows evidence of where you will go. Are you seeking to follow after Christ or are you merely going through the motions? Or did you say some words when you were young that do not hold true today as evidenced by your life? Or do you not claim to be a Christian at all? This is not meant to scare you, but the truth is sometimes scary. Will you spend an eternity with God or apart from him in anguish? It is a question we all have to answer. Answer it well.

We are only here for a brief moment. What will we do with that moment?

Brian