NOT PROMISED TOMORROW

NOT PROMISED TOMORROW

   When you are diagnosed with a terminal condition, the news affects you and everyone around you.  Children mourn, even though you are very much alive.  Treatments have not even been initiated.  Everyone, including you, everyone can look into the future and know the end result.   Whatever!

   From the time we are born, we are all dying.  Get over it!  We each have a destination but we each also have a purpose.  Get your eyes off the raging waters of the storm or you will drown.  Refocus your eyes on Jesus and you will walk on the water.

   Your heart should not be heavy.  Not everyone has God's grace to be given the advanced notice of their demise.

   So, if you have received a terminal diagnosis, all that does is make you aware of your humanity.  It gives you notice that you need to get your affairs in order, instead of being taken off guard.  None of us were meant to live forever in this world.  We are just passing through:

   Those of you who are living life with no concern about your home-going, you are the ones we really feel sorry for.  God will demand your life one of these days.  What will you be able to say to Jesus who has sacrificed Himself for you?  Will you be in the position to say, "Thank you", or will you only be able to say, "I'm sorry, Jesus, other things were more important to me while I still lived."?

PARABLE OF THE RICH FOOL

   Jesus was speaking, "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop.  He thought to himself, 'What shall I do?  I have no place to store my crops.'

   "Then he said, 'This is what I'll do:  I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.  And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years.   Take life easy:  eat, drink, and be merry." '

   "But God said to him, 'You fool!  This very night your life will be demanded from you.  Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' "

  "This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."  Luke 12: 14-21 (NIV)

   Money isn't the only thing that is implied here.  If you are living your life as if God doesn't exist, you will come face to face with Him one day when your life is demanded of you.  The good news is that as long as you still breathe, there is hope.  Please, Jesus is knocking at the door of your heart.  Please open the door and let Him into your life.  It is a joyful life, even with a terminal diagnosis.

   So, now you know.  It is time to get back to task of living.  Know this:  God is the Great Physician.  Every day of your life is a gift from The Great I Am.  The next life is determined by you.  For learn more about the saving grace of Jesus, please click here:   https://omaswisdom.blogspot.com/p/path-to-salvation.html

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