DAY 27

But God draws the mighty away with His power; He rises up, but no man is sure of life. - Job 24:22.

Bruce Willis who contemplated his life and his mortality in an interview with USA Weekend apparently agrees with the observations of Job. He says “I’ve lost a couple of friends in freak accidents.” “It makes you realize how fragile life is, how quickly it can be taken away.” Surprisingly he says, “I think about my death at least once a day. I say to myself, ‘Am I living my life? Am I enjoying my life today?’ Because this is not a rehearsal. This is it.’”

How true! Each day is important and we have no guarantee of tomorrow. The apostle Paul seems to have lived his life with this awareness of the urgency of life as well. Paul says, “...forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:13b-14).” It is indeed a high calling to be a child of God (John 1:12).

The writer of the book of Hebrews also understood this urgency and great calling of God as he wrote, “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:1-2).”

This is it!