What if today you found out that 2020 was your last year on earth? Would you live any differently from the way you currently live day in and day out? Of course you would. So would I. (I’m not talking about a dreaded fear of dying and facing the judgment of God because we haven’t lived right – although if the shoe fits wear it.) I’m talking about how we want to leave this life with no regrets. Like football coaches say, “Leave it all out on the field”. One of the keys to spiritual maturity is living on the edge and making the most of every day to bless others, changing some of our ways so we are more in line with the way Jesus lived, and loving God more for His great love for us. We want to do good and crave to leave a positive mark when we leave this life by blessing people and at the same time growing closer to Christ every day. Read Mt.24:36-42; 25:31-34 and listen to Good to Be Alive by Jason Gray.
“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.