"Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away." - James 4:14 (NASB)
Saturday night, my son, Caden, had gone with neighbors to the Auburn University football game where they met up with my oldest daughter Calley, who's a senior at Auburn. After the game, my kids and neighbors were in the car together and were t-boned by another car. Calley wrote the following blog as she reflected on the accident:
Sometimes, life happens quickly.
You look up and everything that was so familiar has suddenly changed.
My baby brother (six years younger, but 5 inches taller than me) came to a football game with me. At one point he left the student section to go get concessions and I thought to myself, "Oh my, should I let him go alone? Caden, do you have your phone?" Then I realized that at his age, let alone size, he was perfectly able to do things alone. I was likely in more danger than he of walking through the stadium unaccompanied.
It happened fast. He grew up. He's changed.
As I was being driven home after the game, we got into a wreck that totaled the car. The guy came out of nowhere and hit my side of the car very hard and very fast. Other than a slight crick in my neck and a headache in the passenger of the front seat, we were unharmed.
It happened fast. One minute we were driving, the next we were slammed off the road.
Now technically you could make a case that one event was actually faster than the other. I disagree. Because in either of these situations you could miss your opportunity.
That opportunity may look different depending on who is seizing it. For me, the opportunity is open to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. He took upon himself the penalty for our infinitely missed opportunity.
You see, we had the opportunity to live forever with God. But we missed it trying to be God (instead of be WITH God). We missed it and it was forever lost.
Christ can be for you what He has been and is for me. By claiming Him as Savior and naming Him as Lord, we can gain back our opportunity and be with God forever.
I didn't share the gospel with my brother daily until he was grown up. I didn't share the gospel with my neighbors until we were standing beside a totaled car.
Praise the Lord that Jesus did not only make His opportunity, but He made my opportunities through His grace. Will you take this opportunity to make Jesus your Savior and Lord? Will you take this opportunity to share Jesus with your neighbor?
Life happens fast. Don't miss the opportunity.
Praise God!
Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson
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