Tick Tock

“Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”

Psalm 90:12

"Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself. Be sure of that" -Charles H. Spurgeon

That quote really hit me hard in the face when I heard it, and initially I was thinking “What? That's crazy, that doesn't make any sense.”

But when I just think about life, death, eternity, and what it means to be saved for about 5 minuters and then re-read the quote...

Then it makes sense.

Have you ever been in a conversation and told yourself: “I need to share the gospel with this person?>” But then suddenly fear creeps in, you don't bring up any spiritual topic, you say goodbye, and then you feel terrible because you know that you should have.

I know I have!

Remembering that God has everything under His control, and realizing that God knew precisely what He was doing when He told us to preach the gospel to every creature.

I had a visual illustration pop into my head on November 14, last year, that has helped me to put things into a different perspective.

Imagine this...

On a cold winter morning you wake up, and there's are some glasses and a note sitting right next to your bed.

It says:

Dear [Your name]

Please hurry up.

The clock is ticking.

Love,

God

“Interesting,” you say.

You put on the glasses, and find that when you look through them, everyone has numbers in year, day, hour, minute, second format posted on their foreheads.

These meters tell how long a person has left to live.

Most people's meters show at least 20, 30 or 70 years left to live.

You think, “Yikes.”

After wearing these glasses for a few hours, you are talking to a person in a store, and you notice that his reading says Yr 00: Day 00: Hr 00: Min 45: Sec 19... he has less than one hour left to live.

How long are you going to talk about his favorite hobbies, his life goals, or anything else of that nature as his remaining moments left here on earth wither away before your very eyes?

Not long!!

Not if you care about his eternity, and you know for a fact how to get there.

You would make sure that he knows exactly how to get to escape hell, and be with God forever in heaven.

You would tell him that his life is almost over.

Now think about this...

Everyone's life is almost over.

When compared to eternity, life on earth will eventually seem like zero time at all.

Everyone has life meters.

We just can't see them.

So when your talking with someone, whether a close friend or a new acquaintance, remember: this person may have 1 hour left to live.

Are they absolutely sure where they are going when they die? And are YOU preaching the gospel, and sharing the love of Christ with your actions?

A lot of times we get so busy studying God's Word that we forget the basic commandment to preach the gospel. (Mark 16:15 “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”)

Challenge:

Let's always continue to gather wood (Read/study/meditate on God's Word) to keep the fire (Application God's Word) hot

But not be so busy only gathering wood that our fire dims and dies.

God bless you all with grace and peace!

Love, joy and peace in Christ,

Landon

Would you do anything different if you had this much time left on earth?

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