A thought keeps reoccurring in my head: What if I get to death and look back on my life and all I see are worldly accomplishments and the accumulation of stuff. Would I be satisfied? Would I get to the end and say “man this was great, it was everything I wanted it to be?” Could I spend eternity knowing that’s what I had to show for myself; was an old man with a lot of crap. This thought has really bothered me and I know that what I want to see when I get to death is not a vision of that.
God is doing some huge things across the world, doing whatever it takes to reclaim what is rightfully his. He is speaking truth into lies, giving hope to the hopeless, spreading love to the hated, extending grace to the murders of his truth, pointing light into the darkness, and pouring himself out so that his creation may have abundant life. You hear stories about God doing these things and this idea of God reclaiming his creation just shatters my previous thoughts.
I want to look back at the end of my life and not really know I how got there. I just want to know that along the way I got onboard with what God was doing in the world and He took me for a ride. I could be satisfied with that. I could get to the end and know that I was apart of something huge, something outside of myself.
My hope and prayer is that we are all aboard because God is moving fast and this is something I cannot afford to miss. As my best friend would say “sometimes you have to let go of something good to grab a hold of something great.”
