Live!

Sometimes, a good and godly person can get the feeling something bad is about to happen. It usually includes an attachment of, “and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

This is a theme that transcends culture and the ages and beats up on saved and pagan alike. Everybody gets the heebie jeebies now and then. It’s a feeling of impending doom and a sickening dread that threatens us.

Teenagers flocked by the millions to a movie called “Final Destination” and its sequel. It’s a scary movie about kids who cheat death and then spend the next two hours running from it. The conclusion is that once death is after you, it is going to get you.

I have something to tell you that will absolutely deflate the terror that once death is after you, you are doomed. Let me turn that 2-hour movie into a 5-minute flick. Death is not after you. Death already has you. It caught you before you were born!

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men. – Romans 5:12

Death isn’t chasing anybody! It doesn’t have to. Death never has and never will pursue you. With that knowledge comes freedom!

There is a great country song by Tim McGraw where he sings about having cancer. Knowing death is inevitable, he sings, “I loved deeper, and I spoke sweeter, and I gave forgiveness I’d been denying. Someday, I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.”

Stop fearing death and fear a life not lived to the full. Live like today is your last day to make King Jesus proud of you!