In the Blink of an Eye
February 27
What is the deal? It happened again. I blinked and another month is gone. Faster and faster the days seem to fly by. Oh, Lord, did I accomplish what you had purposed for each day of 2013 so far? I doubt it.
The tyranny of the urgent entraps us. A click here and a text there tricks us into believing we are truly connected to others, but the touch of life has been trampled out. The trumpet could sound today or another meteor fall from the sky. Who do we know that has never shared with us of their love and adoration for Jesus? How often do we think about where those people could be in the blink of an eye?
Listen to what 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 says in The Message:
But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I'll probably never fully understand. We're not all going to die-but we are going to be changed. You hear a blast to end all blasts from a trumpet, and in the time that you look up and blink your eyes-it's over. On signal from that trumpet from heaven, teh dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At the same moment and in the same way, we''ll all be changed. In the resurrection scheme of thigs, this has to happen, everything perishable taken off the shelves and replaced by the imperishable, this mortal replaced by the immortal. Then the saying will come true: Death swallowed by triumphant Life! Who got the last word, oh, Death? Oh, Death, who's afraid of you now? It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power. But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three-sin, guilt, death-are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!
What is the deal? It happened again. I blinked and another month is gone. Faster and faster the days seem to fly by. Oh, Lord, did I accomplish what you had purposed for each day of 2013 so far? I doubt it.
The tyranny of the urgent entraps us. A click here and a text there tricks us into believing we are truly connected to others, but the touch of life has been trampled out. The trumpet could sound today or another meteor fall from the sky. Who do we know that has never shared with us of their love and adoration for Jesus? How often do we think about where those people could be in the blink of an eye?
Listen to what 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 says in The Message:
But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I'll probably never fully understand. We're not all going to die-but we are going to be changed. You hear a blast to end all blasts from a trumpet, and in the time that you look up and blink your eyes-it's over. On signal from that trumpet from heaven, teh dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At the same moment and in the same way, we''ll all be changed. In the resurrection scheme of thigs, this has to happen, everything perishable taken off the shelves and replaced by the imperishable, this mortal replaced by the immortal. Then the saying will come true: Death swallowed by triumphant Life! Who got the last word, oh, Death? Oh, Death, who's afraid of you now? It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power. But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three-sin, guilt, death-are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!
