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While renewing many customer's Chronicles the other week, I found a
small note inside an envelope from Mr. and Mrs. David Novak of Highland.
They asked to have their Chronicle renewed for 1 year and then they added
a piece of scripture from Romans 5:6. Along with that message was a short
story written by Norman Lorimer from Truth and Tidings Magazine writing
about how time is short with a passage from 1 Corinthians 7:29. The story
started out with a child watching a parent die from cancer and near the end
of their life, the parent murmured that "Time is short". It also stated, in the
story, how the life expectancy for people in civilized countries around the
world is approximately 70 to 75 years. It is written in the Bible in Psalm
90:10 that "The days of our years are threescore years and ten" (70 years).
If we live beyond 70, we are living on borrowed time.
It went on to state that the most important thing we should think about in
our long lives is the salvation of our souls. That really struck me. How many
people can actually say that the salvation of our souls is the most important
thing in their life? I bet many don't even think about their souls when making
a list of things most important in their life. It most likely starts out with family,
friends, or even money. But don't our family and friends and even money
help us decide what our soul is or what it will become? If we go down the
wrong path worshiping something that is materialistic then we may never
get to the eternal home where we will have wealth beyond our wildest
dreams.
As Easter approaches, many will be getting pictures taken with the Easter
bunny, eating too much candy and dying eggs. But it is important to remember
what Easter is truly all about.
The story ended with a short poem: "To lose your wealth is sad indeed; to
lose your health is more, to lose your soul is such a loss, that nothing can restore.
But Christ has died upon the Cross, to save you from your sin. and if
you trust Him as your Lord, Heaven's door you'll enter in".
Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Novak for the touching words of wisdom that I know
I needed.