Did You Know That TIme is NOT Retrievable?

"Man is like a mere breath; his days are like a passing shadow" (Psa. 144:4).

Hey Gang, I had a conversation with a man who is in the twilight years of his life but will have nothing to do with God or His Son Jesus.  It is my sincere opinion that the reason is, he does not want to give up total control of his own life and the bangles and beads that are more important to him- right now- than eternal life with the King of kings and Lord of lords.  He also said, Sunday was his day and he just did not want to give it up. 

It is also my sincere opinion that in the back of his mind he is planning on a death bed conversion and slip into the Kingdom of God on the promise that Jesus made to the thief on the cross.  However, is that not placing your soul in jeopardy for all eternity?

How much time we have is not known to us and life could end in the twinkling of an eye.  A head-on car crash and a period placed at the end of a life.  A terminal disease and the light goes out, sometimes quickly.

The Psalmist wrote, "As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or due to strength, eighty years" (Psa. 90:10).  I pray daily for the children in the St. Jude Cancer Treatment Center.  Mere babies that are fighting for their lives.  They are not into seventy or eighty years of life but tomorrow. 

James wrote, "You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away" (James 4:14b).  Does that not smack at our macho egos?  Are we  so into power and control that we think we can put off the eternal things until it best fits into our agenda?  "No, I don't want to give up my Sundays!"  Is that not a dangerous attitude? 

Perhaps he should take a moment and digest the words of Psalmist, "As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.  When the wind has passed over it, it is no more, And its place acknowledges it no longer" (103:15-16)

I realize Gramps Morning Thoughts are addressed to an audience that is firmly anchored in Jesus hands but, perhaps, it might by accident fall into the hands of one who needs to know the time that they think they have can be cut out from under them in the twinkling of an eye.  We have no guarantees that we will be alive one second from now?  And then what?

John put it this way "We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day, night is coming when no one can work" (9:4). 

Soooo, I cannot end this without a word from Paul: "And let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not" Gal. 6:9).

Blessings,

Gramps