James 4:13-14
Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
For the past two weeks and more, it seems that the whole world’s attention has been focused on the disappearance of Malaysian flight 370 with 277 passengers and 12 crew members.
Last Saturday there was a massive mudslide here in the State of Washington. So far, there are 14 confirmed dead and over 100 more unaccounted for. These are only two incidents that resulted in loss of life in a moment of time.
Each of us lives only a heartbeat away from eternity. When you are as old as I am, you know that the days of life are greatly reduced. Many people much younger than I am have suddenly had their lives ended in a moment of time.
Regardless of how long we live, we can have the confident assurance that at the moment of our death we can know that we will be with the Lord Jesus. Our Scripture for today tells us just how fleeting this earthly life is. The question that we need to ask ourselves is whether we have received Jesus to be the Lord of our life and insure that our name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!
– – – Pastor Cecil