Life after childhood and grad school truly does appear to move fast. Before we know it we wake with bones aching and fighting the grandparent urge to share about your bowel movements when anyone asks how you are.We begin to look at life differently and reflect on things we have done or wish we would have done. We begin to make comments like, “I want to do this by the time I’m….”, or “Before I die I want to accomplish this by the year…”
We have this funny notion that we are in control of the time frame of our lives, yet we are only promised this one moment, not tomorrow.
1 Thess. 5:1,2
1 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
What if our comment and question was not what I want to do in the next 5 years, but rather, "There is so much I want to do before I die….so what can I do at this moment?” To quote a godly man who lived in each moment as it was an added gift, “Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of heaven.” ~Jim Elliot
So, what will you do with this moment?
2 comments:
Jim Elliot also said,
“Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.”
Mr. Russell...you are so correct.
Thank you for adding.
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