It Doesn't Matter

Three deaths this week in Hollywood. Maybe more I don't know. But three very big ones. Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.

You know what strikes me the most in death, especially death of rich and famous people? It doesn't matter. Hear me out. I'm not saying their death doesn't matter. Death matters no matter who the person is. But here we have people who travelled the world and made millions and were worshipped in a sense. No doubt many people are mourning right now. People who haven't even met any of these people yet feel they know them from watching them grow up.

But sadly their lives are over. Ages 86, 62, and 50. And now they enter into Eternity which is a lot longer than any of the numbers just typed and where did they end up? I honestly don't know and won't suspect, however, now that they're gone everything is left, the riches and the fame and they're left to face the creator who only cares about what they did for Him. Did any of them accept Christ and live out their lives for him? Now it's too late, but will they be like the rich man in the Bible looking up begging to go back and warn their families?

Sam and I were just talking about this the other day. Many people have died and for those who had it all on earth and chose not to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and die and realize that God is real and eternity is spent in one of two places - How would they live their life if they could come back? Would they realize that nothing else matters except what they do for Christ? It'd be interesting to be able to see the change in those people if they were able to come back and do it over. And I told my husband aren't we guilty of the same thing? We have a golden opportunity to let our lives reflect Christ! To be the Christians God has called us to be. Let us not let time run out! If you haven't accepted Christ, then do it. I remember talking to a Jehovah Witness at my house recently who told me that if I choose not to follow their way then after I die I just stay in the ground, I then told her that's not a bad thing actually it doesn't sound like a consequence I just sleep for eternity so to me there's no point in following their way but if I'm right and she's wrong then the consequences are severe (this left her speechless). If you have accepted Christ then start honoring him with more than your words. I know the saying is old but talk is cheap. If we say we're Christians yet live and look like the world then our talk is cheap. Our time is going to run out. Unless the rapture happens first, we have an appointment to keep. We don't know the day or time but it's going to run out and like Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Ed McMahon we're going to leave everything behind. We have second chances while on this earth but we won't have a second chance then and God is only going to care about one thing.