The Death of an Unwrapped Present

This has been a weird summer so far. People are sick and people are dying. Some were sick. Some weren’t. Every week I hear of at least one person passing away. The thing that I’m realizing about death is that there isn’t much we can control about it. We can’t control when it happens and we can’t control how it happens. Well okay, if you smoke 3 packs of cigarettes a day and die of lung cancer, I guess there was something you could do about it…but what about that old lady we’ve all heard of or known that smoked just as much and died of old age? And what about that little kid that got hit by a car before he entered elementary school? The point is, everyone is going to die and there isn’t much we can do about it.

There is one thing we can control though. We can control where we go when we die. Jesus died so that we wouldn’t have to spend our eternity in hell. All we have to do is believe and accept this truth and follow the example he left for us. We have to build a relationship with the one and only God. We have to let him take control of the lives that we’re messing up when left to our own plans. We have to realize that we’re all sinners and we all mess up but we don’t have to live condemned because of it. Jesus died on a cross to free us of the condemnation. It’s the best gift anyone could ever give us. But we have to accept the present. So many people left this one gift wrapped up nicely sitting under a tree. Too many people only unwrap the gift when they have nothing left to lose. Man, I wish people would realize that this gift is for all, no matter what is going on in your life. Whether you have it all together or not. God doesn’t want us to live in fear of dying, because we don’t know what will happen. The bible tells us what will happen, if only we believe.