Growth Time's up

[Kidron]

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Well, one day you are here, and then, lo and behold, one day you're not.
You are born to die, and there is NO escape.
Death is coming for you and you are rushing toward it with every heartbeat.
And speaking of heartbeats, you are exactly one less heartbeat away from your end.

Here is something for you to do..
Get a newspaper, buy it, and >sit alone< and look at the Obituary page and notice all the people in it.
While you are doing this, remind yourself that not ONE of them knew they were going to be in it the day you are looking at it... See, death comes as a shock, yet it no surprise at all... As we are all headed to the same door that separates this physical life from the spiritual realm that awaits.
And indeed death is a door, its the gateway from the here and now to the eternal and beyond.
So, dont fear this door, as its the door to Glory.

Now, im sure you are busy facing your day at work and dealing with you family and taking care of the usual business, however, if you are a Christian, then as well as taking care of all your fundamental responsibilities, you do have one that usurps them all and that is for you to take time out everyday to appreciate what God has done for you, and to find a way every day to give something back to Him in appreciation.
Maybe that is a kind word imparted to a hurting heart, or perhaps its a few dollars given with a smile to that aggravating person who will "work for food" you see at the red light.... Or maybe its to visit the sick, or to call that lonli grandparent..
Whatever it is, you know what it is, and you know that you need to take the love of God and give it away, as THAT is Job 1.
See, one day you are going to die, and its sooner then you expect, and if you are a Christian you are going to meet your Lord, and He is going to ask you.... "What have you done with the LOVE i gave to you"....and you need to be able to sincerely answer...."Lord, I gave it all away".
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[Not_Now.Soon]

Very dark perspective, with a focus of death, and time wasting away, but holds truth in that portion of it. Focus on everyday making time for God, and making time to follow Him. That is an awesome message. I can see why it's paired with the perspective of our life will eventually meet death's door.

 

[Kidron]

Very dark perspective, with a focus of death, and time wasting away, but holds truth in that portion of it. Focus on everyday making time for God, and making time to follow Him. That is an awesome message. I can see why it's paired with the perspective of our life will eventually meet death's door.

Its a good thing to take time, for a Christian or anyone,.... to take time to dwell on their death.
Its the great awakening that will cause the saved to focus on what matters most, and the unsaved to begin to worry about what is going to happen to them after they die.
Death, the idea of it, is a very great "salt" & "sobering" concept.

 

[Not_Now.Soon]

Its a good thing to take time, for a Christian or anyone,.... to take time to dwell on their death.
Its the great awakening that will cause the saved to focus on what matters most, and the unsaved to begin to worry about what is going to happen to them after they die.
Death, the idea of it, is a very great "salt" & "sobering" concept.

Perhaps it does have that effect. I've heard simular things with regard to people who face the threat of death and say they come out of it as a better person. Cancer patients mostly in that population, but I'm sure I've heard it elsewhere too.

I have a confession though. I know I don't want to die, and I would fight it to live and survive. I know this is in me and I'm glad for it. But I also know that for me I look forward to being dead. Life is a struggle, one I have no right to say I'm winning on my own. If it was not for a safety net of family, I know I would not be making it as well as I am, and I worry I may have lost the nerve to continue on while in a dark place in my life a few years ago. My hope in life are tied closely with finding rest after I die. And my hopes for the world are closely tied to after God comes, and the terrors that are to happen before hand come too, because the promises of the new kind of world are the hopes I hope for. Only recently have my hopes been changing to more hopes in this life, and in the future that I'm still alive to see. A wonderful woman I have as a wife, and a hope for a family. These tie me into the wotld more, and maybe enough that I long to hope for my life more then I hope for my restful death.

Either way though, I enjoyed your perspective.

 

[Kidron]

Perhaps it does have that effect. I've heard simular things with regard to people who face the threat of death and say they come out of it as a better person. Cancer patients mostly in that population, but I'm sure I've heard it elsewhere too.

I have a confession though. I know I don't want to die, and I would fight it to live and survive.

Yes,
people who have suffered or have had a very near death experience often have an "awakening".

As far as feelings that people, Christians, have about dying.....i think that for a lot of them, its not death they fear, as much as it is ,"how am i going to die, will i suffer"....and this unknown quantity is the part about death that a sane person would be concerned about.

And about being with the family......well, the good news is that once we are all together in heaven, we no longer have to watch the difficult things that happen to the ones we love, and they no longer will have to watch it happen to us.