March 28
To each of us is allotted a span of moments and days and months and years that we are to configure into a life. We endeavor to make our lives into worthy reflections of our abilities, our interests, our hopes, our dreams and our loves. We mold our lives into a pattern unique to ourselves—beautiful in our way.
It would be difficult to recognize by the normality of our day-to-day activities that looming before each of us is the reality of hell to fear and heaven to lose. We focus on the ordinary responsibilities that fill our hours without a thought that the moment we breathe our last becomes the moment none of it matters in the least.
We avoid the thought of our own mortality. We defer the soul searching that each of us should do regarding eternity and where we will spend it. But the living Word of our Savior Jesus Christ admonishes that we confront that necessity and that we settle it to our eternal advantage. The Lord who loves us does not want us to be lost.
Hebrews 4:1 says, “While the promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear so that none shall miss it.” There is a limit imposed upon our opportunity to avail ourselves of life’s only truly important invitation. II Corinthians 6:2 tells us, “Behold now is the accepted time; today is the day of salvation.” Don’t let your opportunity for heaven be lost in the busy-ness of life’s mundane pursuits.
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