James,
in his letter, gives us a perspective on life. In James 4:13-14 he writes:
“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city,
spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit; ’whereas you do not know
what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that
appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, ‘If
the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’” We need to live each day
with the awareness that that day may be our last.
A
friend and fellow church member was going to visit his mother on his
motorcycle. He had in mind where he would go after that. He probably had in
mind tentative plans for the next day, and the next week. But someone pulled an
automobile into his path and the collision took his life. I feel certain that
John Veazey had his life and his spirituality in order and was ready to be
ushered into the next life. But I doubt he expected it to be on Friday. Our
sympathy goes out to his family. And though he surely sorrows to be parted from
them, I know that his life beyond life is one of rewards and joy.
We
all need to make plans, keep a calendar, and honor future commitments. Life
would be chaotic without so doing. But the question for all of us is, do our
plans for our activities have a place for interruption? For one day, hopefully
far into the future, we shall transition from this life into the next, some
gradually and some suddenly. We need to be sure we are in the Lord’s hands when
it happens.
Grace
and Peace
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