Tragety struck Digium today. A co-worker's step brother died in a car accident. Although I didn't know the bother, and I don't really know my co-worker so well, I still feel his pain and sadness. I think, "What if it was one of my brothers?", and I get this feeling in my chest. I think, "What if it was me?", and I realize that without Christ I am truly powerless aganist death.
Even though I have always excepted the fact that I will die one day, I have always, if even only subconsciously, though myself to be invinceable. Immune to death's power over everything. I have always thought, "I can't get cancer because I eat right and exercise", "I won't get in a car accident because I am a careful driver", "I won't die in a plane crash because I won't". But the reality of life is that any time I could die of any number of reasons. No matter how safe we make our cars, airplanes, and boats, no matter how advanced medicine becomes, we cannot eliminate death. Living is not a joke.
Christ gave us a very short time here to build our character in the image of His and spread the gospel. At any time He has the right to close this chapter of our existance. Yet knowing these things, we still go about our lives like we have time to relax. Like the gospel will spread it self. Like death is a distant obstacle, almost non existant.
Death striking so close to home makes life that much more serious. I think about the things I have to tell people, not just things like saying "I love you" to my parents and relatives, they already know that I love them. Things that I have been waiting to let out at the right time. Knowing that if I or the recieving party could die and never get the message, is very unsettling.
I a few months from now I will probably be much more careless about life again, but hopefully I will come back and read this post and remember how serious things really are.
Remember, no matter how hard you try or how much you will it to be so, you cannot control death. Use your time wisely for it is in short supply.
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