You're probably thinking, "so what", a lot of things happen once a year, there's Christmas, Easter, Summer, Winter, and even Gospel Singings. All of these happen once a year. There is one thing that happens to each of us just one time a year, and that's our Birthday. I just had mine this month, and it never fails, every year just like clock work, I am struck with the same question. "What am I doing with my life?"
I'm not going to say that it's depressing, but it certainly is thought provoking to stop and think just what I have done with my life in the past year. I tend to think of myself as a pretty nice guy, after all I don't beat my wife on a regular basis, I don't speed very often, and I don't miss feeding my dog very often, so, I'm sure that you can see that in general, I'm not too bad. The problem is that at this time of the year I always ask myself "What am I doing with my life.......... for Christ?" I mean, I go to church every week, I sing in a group only singing Gospel songs, I watch my share of religious programing in the TV, but still I get this nagging question, "What am I doing with my life for Christ?". When I see someone who is in ill health do I just give them my sympathy, or do I pray for them. Do I just say a prayer under my breath, or do I really pray for them, and encourage them by letting them know that I am praying for them? When I see someone who had just gone through a broken marriage, so I ignore the problem or do I put my hand on their shoulder and tell them that I will pray for them? When the guy who looks just a little shifty walks up to me while I'm putting gas in my car and asks for gas help getting some gas to get a little further down the road, do I just hurry and get in my car and leave, or do I put $20 worth of gas in his car, or if he says that he needs something to at, do I make sure that I have put some food in his belly, or do I again just rush to my car and hurriedly get away as fast as I can? Remember that Jesus said, "As you do things for the least of these, you do them unto Me".
To be real honest, I try to do these things, but I have to wonder if Jesus was standing right next to me, would I do it more often. I also have to wonder, when this life is finally over and I've had my last birthday, when I'm finally standing before God, is he going to pull out a list of all those who I could have helped, but didn't. Will He tell me that if I had been looking, I would have seen others in need?
Well, I'm asking myself that question again, "What am I doing with my life? I don't know about you, but I am going to try my best to live just like Jesus was standing by my side, after all, He is, isn't He?
Author: AGM
| Author's Website: http://absolutelygospel.com/
Written: 12/16/2008
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Category: Editorials
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