What Will You Do Before The Window Closes?

Jim Hamilton with a very poignant post to think through as we come to the close of 2008. He writes:

The end of the year is a great time to ask ourselves some questions:

• When we come to die, or when Jesus comes for us, with whom will we wish we had shared the good news of the death and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah, which pays the penalty for sin and opens the path to reconciliation with God the Father?

• When we come to die, or when Jesus comes for us, what time will we wish we had allotted for Bible study and prayer instead of whatever it was we did to diddle our days away?

• When we come to die, or when Jesus comes for us, in what ways will we wish we had invested ourselves in the ministries of our local church, or in the lives of the people in our local church, instead of going shopping or aimlessly surfing the web again?

• When we come to die, or when Jesus comes for us, what great works of literature–epic poems, plays of Shakespeare, novels, poetry, and short stories–will we wish we had read instead of reading ephemeral blogs or playing with the latest new feature of Facebook?

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