Death is Real

I was moved by the message we had during our service this evening. It was something that I knew a long time ago but had forgotten maybe due to our unending busy schedules and unecessary worries in life. I'm sure you know Brittany Murphy,Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, Patrick Swayze, and Frank Sinatra, right? What do you think is the common factor among those people? One, they are celebrities, they are known, they are famous. Two, they are all dead. Three, their deaths are so sudden that we never thought it would happen to them. What is my point? Death could arrive in our doorsteps right this minute and we would never be ready. Even the people suffering from a terminal illness aren't sure what exact date, time, and hour they will be able to breathe their last breath. Despite our youth, our strength, our status in life, in the end, we would be having our appointment with death, and that's something we could never include in our organizers no matter how eager we would want to put a date to it.

James 4:14 says "Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while then vanishes." The last part of that verse does spark a big realization and hits the truth like an arrow in a bull's eye. That's why we need to make sure that we are living a life that is worthy of the time we have been given here on earth. As Ephesians 5:15-16 states, "Be careful, then, how you live not us unwise but as wise, making the most out of every opportunity because the days are evil." Let us be wise in our decisions. Let us make sure that we do not waste every precious grain of sand falling in each of our life's hourglasses. Let us not make the mistake of living our lives in liberty without knowing the consequences of our actions.

Death is real. Do not be foolish and deceived that we have the freedom to do whatever we can according to what we want. We are already freed by the truth that Jesus Christ has brought to us. With that, let us live our lives according to the truth that is in the Book of Life and make sure that we abide by it. The Bible, although it was written more than 2000 years ago still bears the things that people need despite the changing times. It was, it is, and will always be.