“It is appointed unto men once to die…”~ Heb.9:27
Why is it we can sit calmly in our homes listening to an insurance rep speak to us about preparing for death, and yet we squirm in church when the preacher does? Simple; the former presents this great event as future, while the latter makes it imminent. Plus, and most important, the former spokesman has no addendum to his pitch, but the latter does in his preaching. The preacher always adds that after our appointment with death there is God.
In the last few years, I’ve had a couple of life threatening experiences; death was at my door in the one, and was (is) on the porch in the other! I had always thought of death as happening to someone else. It was hard for me to imagine it happening to such an indomitable person as myself. But after confronted with it, I now find my attitude toward almost everything in life has changed. Paul said, “...neither count my life dear unto myself.” Well, I’m ashamed to say, I had, even though I was not conscious of it. Or maybe I just didn’t want to admit it. We all like to fancy ourselves as being spiritual, and we like others to see us this way also.
The old timers used to say, “You’re not ready to live, till you’re ready to die.” I personally believe that whenever we are honestly willing to be confronted with death, and allow it to become a reality to us, then and only then, will we begin to live.
Or as George McDonald says, “You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.”
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This is powerful, Dad.