I just received an e-mail that is making the rounds. If you know a Christian, it most likely will show up in your inbox. The full article can be found at Christianity Today.
It’s an article written by Tony Snow a year before his death. Americans were used to seeing him speak for the President. We heard him on radio and television years before that. A conservative, yes; an American first, and a follower of Christ before that.
The article is quite pragmatic. Snow had a potentially fatal cancer that had resurfaced. He faced his mortality – and his immortality. He stated: “I don't know why I have cancer, and I don't much care.” He’s right – the only reason to know why would be to help others avoid it. Researchers can do that, we can’t, so don’t worry about it.
We are born and begin the process of dying. That’s the natural order in this world. Conceived in life, alive for a time, always on the edge of the inevitable death that awaits us all. There are no alternative exit procedures. Some deny the exit. Doesn’t change the reality.
Snow wrote: “We don't know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator face-to-face.”
I believe we not only get to choose, we get to explain how we’ve used that interval – that “dash” between the dates of our birth and our death. That explanation before His throne is as inevitable as our death. Some will deny the throne. Doesn’t change the reality.
Snow did not directly quote scripture references as I usually do, but his message contains God’s words. Each of his conclusions can be tracked to specific scriptures. And, his conclusions mirror mine: “…God doesn't promise us tomorrow, he does promise us eternity—filled with life and love we cannot comprehend—and that one can in the throes of sickness point the rest of us toward timeless truths that will help us weather future storms.”
AMEN!!!
The choice to believe or not to believe is ours. The choice to live in hope or not is ours.
I firmly believe that I will have an eternity with our Lord, and within that lack of time frame, an opportunity to serve Him as I began to do here, in preparation.
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