We encourage you to make the most of your time on earth. Unlike Heaven, time is limited on earth. If you are living life by putting off change and repentance in regard to your sins, you are fooling yourself into believing you can do it tomorrow. Time and effort to grow closer to God is not something you want to put off day after day, because you can end up procrastinating until its too late. Just recently, I attended a funeral of a young man who passed away the day after his 19th birthday. We do not know the day we leave this earth, and so we should not take time for granted. Dont take my words as the only testimony for this wise teaching: “As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children.” (Psalm 103: 15-17) Begin your day with the end in mind. Think about today as your last day on earth and work backwards form there. If this day is your last day, what would you do or change today? Who would you forgive in your heart? What good deeds of faith or acts of charity would you perform? The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis teaches us the same lesson in Book 1, chapter 23 “Very soon your life here will end; consider, then, what may be in store for you elsewhere. Today we live; tomorrow we die and are quickly forgotten. Oh, the dullness and hardness of a heart which looks only to the present instead of preparing for that which is to come! Therefore, in every deed and every thought, act as though you were to die this very day. If you had a good conscience you would not fear death very much. It is better to avoid sin than to fear death. If you are not prepared today, how will you be prepared tomorrow? Tomorrow is an uncertain day; how do you know you will have a tomorrow?”
