Two Died Too Soon

I was saddened to hear this weekend of two people I new who passed away suddenly and while still relatively young. One, a friend in his mid-forties went to sleep on the couch while watching a ball game and never woke up. The other, a friend and co-worker in his early fifties, was driving in the car with his son, complained of feeling ill, pulled the car over and died of a heart attack.

Neither man to my knowledge had demonstrated any evidence of a saving relationship with the Lord. But, at this point only God knows for sure what their eternal destination is.

Life is truly a vapor. We are here for a little while and then we're gone.

How about you? Do you know for sure what your eternal destination will be? If you're not sure, you can be by recognizing and accepting Jesus' sacrificial death and atonement for your mistakes. If you have not done that, I would urge you to do it today, right now, for you know not when your time will expire.

If you have done that and you are sure where you'll go when you die, then for what purpose were you given this great gift? In light of eternity (a long time indeed) what is it that you are supposed to be doing between now and the time you die? In other words, let's say you've been given another 10 or 20 years to live. Do you think you are just supposed to eat, drink, sleep, work, play and then do that again and again each day until your time comes? Or did God have something more deliberate, more purposeful in mind when he chose to reveal himself to you?

I think we have a purpose. And it certainly has eternity in view. Let's pray that God would reveal it to us this day and each day we live until our time is up.