As If the Last

Today, the world will throw a lot at you and expect much from you. Today, the world will give you headaches, heartaches, backaches, and stomachaches, and yet expect you to be at your best. Today, will be filled with distractions, enjoyments, frustrations, amazements, as well as weariness. Today, you will be given 86,400 more seconds to utilize productively or squander away frivolously. How will you use it, or how will you allow the world to rob you of it? My suggestion, is to think of it as if it was the last 86,400 seconds you have left to live. It may make a difference in how you live it out. Because the reality is that we are not guaranteed tomorrow, and what we have, to do something with, is today.

I wonder how we would spend it differently when it came to our relationships with others. Would we be more gentle and understanding with those we love? Would we seek more time together talking and listening and laughing, or would we be staring at a little rectangular screen watching the latest video, Instagram, or TikTok release? Would we find more ways to heal wounds that have been torn open over and over again, or ignore them and hope they go away? Would we hug our children more and sit with them to play a game or read another picture book? Would we think more about our relationship with the God of the universe and reconcile our relationship with Him, or continue to just take Him for granted also?

We all have a choice every day, to invest more in things, possessions, money, pleasures, security, or in people, family, and God. God gave us only three commands when it came to life: 1. Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, 2. Love your neighbor as yourself, and 3. Love one another as I (Christ) have loved you. All of them have to do with relationships with others, not about things. All of them have to do with loving one another deeply and whole-heartedly.

So, today, live as if it was the last day you have been given. You may find that stuff no longer has the same urgency to possess. You may find that relationships, especially your spouse and children, have become the most precious thing in your life. You may finally find a way to heal the brokenness that has been on the back burner for far too long.

ACTION STEP: This week, live each day as if it was your last.