“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”- Phil. 1:21
Jim Elliot was spot on when he said, ” He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose”. Make no mistake about it, regardless of how hard you try, you cannot hang on to life forever. You are going to die. The question isn’t whether or not life will end, but how will you spend it?
Mark Twain said, ” The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find our why”. Sadly a lot of folks don’t have a clue as to why they exist. Many are bored to tears and some are even worse. Rather than seeing their God given purpose they see life as a problem and they feel overwhelmed. They exist but they aren’t living in the truest sense. They are just trying to make it through life rather than trying to make something through their life.
Before he died, Adrian Rogers left us with this challenge and counsel: “..the most dangerous thing we can do is to play it safe. You are safer out on the waves with Jesus Christ than you are in the boat without him. These are desperate days, and we need to live like it. Don’t just sit there and let life pass you by! You’re going to die anyway. You can’t save your life. You’re not going to get out of it alive. And so you might as well invest it in something important”.
Since many would debate about what’s important let me make it clear. Life is not about “me” and “now”. It is about Christ and eternity. Don’t waste it! Someone said, “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it”. Indeed, that is tragic. The truth is that we don’t really begin to live until we receive Christ as our Lord and Savior. Then we are to live for Him by living like Him. That alone makes life good and death gain. – HDS
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
