“Death” – perhaps is a word we often avoid talking about especially in our culture. It is also a word we do not want to think about which create the ever popular mentality of “Eat, drink and be merry! Let us just live as each day passes by!” But the reality is death can knocks at our door anytime without us knowing and in the next instance, we might not even have time to bid anyone goodbye.
May I say we can look at life as in having appointments which is indeed so if you put life into careful observation. Just by looking into a day, you know you have different appointments at different time slot. Take for examples, going to work or going to school itself is an appointment. Having lunch with someone is an appointment. When it is time to go home, it is also another appointment. And so it is, we all have this final appointment which we cannot avoid – “Death”.
I started off the day crossing path with a coffin as I made my way to the first appointment of the day. I started the evening when I am done with another appointment witnessing the same coffin being decorated and with relatives of the decease mourning as they make their way from floor to floor giving the decease in what it seems to me to be a final “farewell “. But a final “farewell” to where? Deep in our hearts, we all know that life does not really ends when we thought it has ended. At least, I know as I recall I was already searching for an answer to this question in my childhood days.
Why do people always have to mourn with so much grieve when one’s life has come to end? Is there no better way to bid goodbye when death knocks at the door of someone you are familiar with? There is, only if you possess the hope of meeting them at a joyous place again. This hope which generates peace in your heart can only be attained only if you yourself are sure of your destination which you will be at the end of the journey to this life. Do you know where you will be then in eternity? Do also bear in mind that eternity means forever. Where will you spend eternity?
It dawns on me then on how often we might have taken the “choice” of life for granted. The privilege to choose is God’s best gift to life. We choose how we want to live this life but we also do choose where we will want to spend eternity. It is because of the opportunity and ability to choose, we have to make a decision in this life because of what Jesus has done for us on the cross.
“For God so loves the world (you) that He gave His only begotten son (Jesus), that whosoever believes in Him (Jesus), shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16
As Good Friday draws near, will you take some time to examine the suffering that Jesus had to go through for us so that we can be sure of our final destination when the curtains draw on us. If having done that, it is then back to a choice in life, “to believe” or “not believe” or “not doing anything about it”. Even in choosing “not doing anything about it”, you have already made a choice in it as in “not to believe”.
If you realize by now, we are all accountable for the choices we make in this life which we have to answer to. But this is perhaps the most important choice each of us has to make which we will be all accountable to at the end of it all. The power of the ability to choose lies in your hand. Do you realize you have with you great power in your hand? Will you choose life instead of death then?
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