David was an accountant and lived with his wife and three young children - he was active and smart and made every single day count.
He authored a book called Coming to Life, and I quote from it:-
"Making every day count means waking up every morning and deciding how I am going to invest the hours that I have available till I go back to bed that night. Of course, I could wallow in my own self-pity all day. But that seems like an incredible waste of two resources which are in short supply - time and strength.
Each day is valuable. I don't know how many more I have in the bank. It's better to use each day as best I can, even with the limitations of my body."
You know it's amazing, don't you! We all drool and carry on about the future and what's going to happen. We dream and work on how the future will unfold for us. We plan and execute our dreams as best we can.
It never really works out that way - there is really no guarantee of life. So, re-reading David's book called Making Every Day Count, comes home to me once again that we should invest in the hours we have available and realise that, in fact, we should use each day as best we can.
David had it in his mind that he would love to retire when he turned fifty-five and become a writer of truth and also novels - he really had no idea that he would be going to meet his Lord and Saviour at the age of just fifty years old.
I guess we all have dreams and plans for the future, and as we get older, if we can survive that long, our plans so often go astray, even haywire - I know mine have, and it's sad.
I know I was a close friend of David's, and we spent many days together. We often went walking - he in his wheelchair while he could manage it, and me trailing alongside, trying my best to keep up. Grabbing a coffee, and made sure he had a straw with it. MND is a horrible and nasty thing.
David contracted MND at the age of just forty, and he lasted an amazing ten years. He passed away at the age of just fifty leaving his wife and three young children.
He had an amazing outlook. He knew where he was headed, but of course, he didn't want to die. He loved his family, he adored his wife, and he was looking forward to the future. He also loved the Lord and what Jesus had done for him on the cross all those years ago.
I know we all don't look forward to death. Our life is precious, and can be fulfilling, but on saying that, I realise that life can also be totally and utterly devastating. We can lose our loved ones, live in a hostile and war-torn area, and constantly be in total danger and all sorts of trauma.
Jesus came to an area where there was absolute disaster and turmoil. Rome had taken over Jerusalem and brought absolute death, torture, and executions that had never been experienced before. Many Israelites had been brutally killed, burned alive at the stake, and used as human torches, many, many crucified, including children - extraordinarily and truly traumatic.
Then came Jesus, knowing that he would die brutally on a cross to pay for our sins. He was completely and utterly innocent and without sin, which, really, because of His sinlessness, was the perfect sacrifice to take all of our sins upon Himself.
He paid for all of our sins, and all we have to do is accept what he has done for us. He was so willing to grab our sins and get rid of them by dying for us on that terrible day.
So, what do we have to do?
Easy! We have to accept his love for us. He was and is so willing to take our sins and forgive us. Of course, we have to come to Him ourselves and ask His forgiveness and accept what he did for us all those years ago.
He died for us - He took our sins and forgave us all, but only IF we come to Him and ask Him to lead us in everything we do.
Every person who believes has experienced a moment when he or she placed their faith in Jesus and accepted the truth that He died to pay for all of our sins and then He rose again.
In the Bible in Romans 10: 9-10 "If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart, that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved for it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved."
God bless you this week - see you next time.
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