You are on the Brink

© 2016 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

All of us are on the brink of eternity.  You may say, “What?!  I’m only Twenty!  My whole life’s before me!”  Is it?  I once nodded good morning to a young soldier at Griffiss Air Force Base.  He was part of a transportation crew delivering computer equipment.  He died a few hours later.  A piece of that equipment fell from the truck and crushed him as he was unloading it.  The rest of your life may be shorter than you think!  However, even if God has appointed your life to last another one hundred years, that’s a drop in the bucket compared to eternity.

If your physical life were to end five minutes from now, would you be ready to meet God and receive His eternal assignment for you?  I believe that most people end up surprised by death.  Scripture reminds us that we don’t know what tomorrow will bring.

“Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (James 4:13-14).

Jesus, Himself, pointed out that very few people are properly prepared to face death.  He said,

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).

 He also revealed that He, alone, is the only way that leads to life.  He said to His apostle, Thomas,

“…I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).

God the Son, Jesus Christ, The Lord, died at Calvary and rose again to save His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).

Have you called out to God asking Him to cleanse you from your sins based on the sacrificial death of Jesus, or are you on the brink of eternity without Him?

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