Message from Scripture: 5/14/2021

 

Our message from Scripture today is Psa. 144:4. “O LORD, what is man that you care for him, the son of man that you think of him? Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow.”

 

When Emily Phillips found out she was going to die from pancreatic cancer, she decided to write her own obituary. In it she said, “It pains me to admit it, but apparently, I have passed away. Everyone told me it would happen one day but that’s simply not something I wanted to hear, much less experience.” She would also add, “So…I was born; I blinked; and it was over.”

 

These two quotes included from Ms. Phillips probably reflects how a lot of people feel when forced to face one’s own mortality. It’s not what most want to hear will happen and have to experience. Reflecting on one’s life, no matter how long it may be, it typically seems way too short, or as she puts it, you’re born, you blink, and then it’s over.

 

Only in Christ is life called abundant (John 10:10). Life in Christ is the only life that fulfills its promise beyond the grave. The hope of eternal life is precious to those who have anchored their soul to Him (Heb. 6:19).

 

In a real sense, we’re all writing our own obituaries, perhaps not to be read in a newspaper or a funeral service someday, but certainly before God. “And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done” (Rev. 20:12). Since all we have is today, let’s go out today and live for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Let’s make this day count for what really matters when our days here come to an end. God bless.

 

Robert