Last week as we talked about my deceased father and big brother, my auntie said, “I’m grateful they are in heaven.”
But you see, I told her, it seems like a win (of course it is), but at the bottom of things unseen, I ask myself, who could they have been if they stayed around 20 or 30 more years!
We like comparing our lives to Jesus’ 33, but He was God and He’s been around long. What happened to ‘with long life He satisfied us…?’ Even if we compare, Jesus had fulfilled what He was born to do anyway!
My dissatisfaction is that the enemy steals (kills and destroys) many people while they are young BEFORE they’d discover or even fulfill their purpose. Proverbs 18:14 says a spirit of a man will sustain him in his infirmities. I believe that knowing such purposes are what enable our spirits to sustain us.
If you go through a terrible time in life, the future you hope for will keep you going — convincing you that better days are to come.
People on deathbeds have spoken to their spirits saying “You can’t die now. You have so much to do!” And that alone … that alone resuscitated them.
We thank God for the comfort for those that we lose. But the context here is you. You reading this…
It is not all about getting to heaven. Heaven is going to be a very long time. Your time on earth is like one grain of sand on the entire beach or sea shore. You must strive to maximize each day, asking of God what He requires of you! For it must be sad, getting to Heaven, and being showed all you’d have done, but you did not do.
God said He has plans for you. He doesn’t have just one plan for you — but plans. Plural! Isaiah said “Come let’s reason together…” These plans must be married with His purpose for you. Avail yourself to Him, that you might reason with Him. So that you refuse to die prematurely when it’s being sold to you!
Paul once talked about his conflict, whether to die or stay (Phil 1:23). He chose staying, for his presence would be needful for the growing church. Seeing Jesus face to face isn’t a purpose to be fulfilled. That’s why Paul weighed his options. He eventually saw Jesus later, but, he took earthly purpose much more seriously.
I pray you do the same. I pray I do the same.
Refuse to leave your purposes unfulfilled. Refuse not to live all God’s plans for you! Plans to bring you prosperity and a future!
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