What
Is Your Life?
Come now, you who say, "Today or
tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing
business and making money." Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will
bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for
a little while and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the
Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast in
your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the right
thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin.
James 4:13-17
Not a day passes without a reminder that
our earthly life can end at any moment. All we need to do is read the obituary
column. We can be here today and in heaven tomorrow.
The only certainty we have is that at any
moment we may be thrust into eternity. There is a certain amount of comfort in
knowing that at any point we can be with our Savior, maybe not on our terms and
time, but certainly in His time. Christ is the anchor of our soul. He paid the
penalty for our sins on the cross. If we admit our guilt before God, we will
receive forgiveness and eternal life by trusting Him. He has promised to remain
with us, even in the hour of death.
It is never too
late to accept Christ,
but at any moment it
could be too late.
Our
Daily Bread -