Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying

I went to a coworker’s spouse’s wake last Friday. A wonderful life cut short by a tragic accident. Nothing gets you thinking about your own immortality than going to a wake or a funeral. There were a lot of people there, friends and family were there, viewing and saying goodbye to the departed. Of course, my brain starts spooling, wondering if I would have this many people show up on my own “event”. We are all someday will be “the center of attention” whether we like it or not. And if this tragedy reminds me of anything, it could happen to anybody, at any age, at any time. Am I ready? Are you ready?

The apostle Paul warned the Ephesians Church about this:

“As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.”

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

So let’s examine our life, refocus our priority, figure out what are the important things and what are the trivial things in life. Don’t waste your life on the trivial things. Cherish every moment and don’t take your love ones for granted. Have we loved enough in our lifetime? Have we forgotten offenses in our life? Have we lived a life worthy of our calling? We who had put our faith in Christ Jesus have been paid with high price. Have we done good works in this earth to return the favor? Not to be saved, because we are saved by grace, not by our works, but because we are saved, we do good works.

I am reminded with a story of a lady who is terminally ill. As she made the funeral arrangement with her pastor, she asked to be buried with the favorite bible in her left hand and a fork in her right hand. The pastor asked, “What’s with the fork?” She said that when she finished a meal at a function or at a dinner, the server would ask her to keep the fork. She knows that something better is coming, dessert…a cheesecake, peach cobbler or crème brule…Good stuff. She said to the pastor if anybody asked about the fork, tell them that something better is coming…

A life with Jesus in Heaven.