The Clock is Ticking

Death is inevitable.

It's coming like a sunset and there is no stopping it. Your day may have dawned today or it could be over fifty years from now. But it's coming. If you're rich you can’t buy your way out of it. If you’re poor you can’t beg your way out of it. No matter how hard you exercise or how healthy your diet is, it's still coming. Fat or skinny, rich or poor, wise or foolish, when death comes knocking it’s the last thing you’ll hear on this earth. You can't trick death.

Moses knew this all too well. By the time he was eighty he had seen plenty of death in Egypt (he had caused one personally) and too much of it in the desert. In Psalm 90:9-10 he wrote, "All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan. The length of our days is seventy years--or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away."

James puts it really bluntly. "Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." (James 4:14)

Whether it's something slow like cancer or something sudden like a tragic car wreck, death is inevitable. There’s not a pass or an app that you can buy that will rescue you from it. When your time comes, your time on earth is done.

Solomon put it this way in Ecclesiastes 9:10, "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom."

So live life to the fullest and live with intentionality while you can! Squeeze the sponge dry. Squeeze your spouse, kids, relatives, and friends until they know you mean it. Live life to the tenth power in His power for His purpose.

Also, focus on the condition of your soul before it's too late. In Mark 8:36 Jesus says, "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?"

Take Steve Jobs for example. From the sources I read, Jobs was an atheist then later practiced Buddhism. But I don't know what he believed the moment he died. Only God knew his heart and last moments. But if he denied Jesus, his death was a tragedy. You could say that he gained the whole world, in a very real sense, yet lost his soul. But this post isn’t ultimately about Steve Jobs. It’s about you. Are you ready to die? Jesus died so that you could live. He died in your place for your sins and through faith in Him you can access this free gift of eternal life. Have you truly trusted Jesus?




If you are a Christian live your life with eternal eyes. See differently. Live differently. Share the gospel boldly while you can. Because soon, maybe sooner than we think, our time will come.