The matter at hand becomes a matter of urgency. One item that is often relegated to the back shelf of life is urgency—a living oxymoron. Life has its pace. Some people find it, while others do not. Some relish in the tempo of one day leading to another, while other meander without any apparent rhyme or reason. There is something to be said about finding that rhythm of life. But there also a dark side to that.
Life happens. Life moves on. If we are not conscious or careful, we can simply become part of life’s flow and ebb. We lose sight of the overarching themes of life: purpose, meaning, and calling. Those terms have mostly lost their luster in a society driven to succeed and climb the professional ladder of success. There is nothing un-biblical about being successful; there is much in Scripture about the incongruence of serving two masters—one material, one spiritual.
Life is not an end in itself. From a biblical perspective, life as I know it is simply the gateway to life eternal. There are, in the midst of the grind of life, matters that outweigh the tangible products of living. There is a spiritual component that not only informs the way I live, think, interact, and serve the people around me, it also calls me to seize the opportunities presented me to further the kingdom of God and bring honor to his name. They come daily, in people and circumstances all around me. It remains for me to step up. Night is coming. Not the darkness that comes at the end of a day, rather a darkness that overtakes the light of the Gospel and dissipates the final rays of truth, faith, hope, and love that still exist in diminishing quantities, but will not as the end of history approaches.
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