On your first day on the other side of the grave, do you think you’ll look back on this life and be flooded with gratitude for hours spent watching episodes of American Idol and Lost? Do you think you’ll look back fondly on the effort and money spent remodeling the kitchen? Do you think you’ll be glad you were up-to-date on the juicy details of celebrity lives? Will you be thankful for the hours, days, weeks, years you lived feeling victimized and sorry for yourself? Will you regret not spending more time at the office? Will you wish you had been more of a people pleaser? Will you miss your caffeine, porn or Facebook?
Me neither.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Sobering Sunday Quote
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he left out sports... but everyone leaves out sports
This is why I have radically cut down my time watching TV. Next, the internet!
Earlier generations (such as those of the Puritans, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, C.S. Lewis, and so on) had a spiritual depth and seriousness that is too often lacking among Christians today. I can't help but think ever-present media is one reason for the difference between Christians of the last forty years and Christians of earlier times.
I want the depth of relationship with God that those earlier brothers and sisters had. I will never have it, though, if I don't seek Him with more seriousness-- and that means saying "no" to a constant barrage of media.
Good post.
Well... Honestly? It depends. His quote:
"On your first day on the other side of the grave, do you think you’ll look back on this life and be flooded with gratitude for hours spent watching episodes of American Idol and Lost?"
Answer: Yes, or at least maybe. This is time I spend with my wife. (Office, House) Those are moments that I cherish. Most times we cuddle during and then consummate after. So, hell yes I'll look back fondly on those times.
"Do you think you’ll look back fondly on the effort and money spent remodeling the kitchen?"
Probably not, but again, depends of if I am doing it with my family or wife. Making and improving things is not a bad thing. Depends on how much money I spend. Solomon says, "And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God."
"Do you think you’ll be glad you were up-to-date on the juicy details of celebrity lives?"
No, I don't. However, people wanting to keep up with his life is one reason they come to his blog... so he's kinda kicking a gift horse in the mouth a little. But if he is talking about strictly gossip, then nope. Twitter has to go.
"Will you be thankful for the hours, days, weeks, years you lived feeling victimized and sorry for yourself?"
This, I will not be thankful for. I cannot wait to rid myself of this. What a peace that will be.
"Will you regret not spending more time at the office?"
No, but only if I didn't do my best. Or if I griped about my work all the time and should have done what Solomon said "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might;"
Will you wish you had been more of a people pleaser?
No.. but yes... I'll most certainly wish I had done more for my neighbor. But if he means that in a co-dependent way, then no, I won't miss it.
"Will you miss your caffeine, porn or Facebook?"
caffeine? Yes
Porn? Hell no.
Facebook? HELLLLLLL no.
I will definitely look back fondly on remodeling the kitchen. No question.
Well, not remodeling, but living in it after it was remodeled.
Won't eternity be spent in part looking back on all the grace in this life?
Good post- it looks like he changed it a little after you copied it?
Yeah, the whole remodeling the kitchen -- I agree with Seth & Abraham that things like that will depend somewhat on the enjoyment of it. I haven't done that, yet, but I've just lived in apartments. But I can see how things like remodeling a kitchen or building a deck could go both ways. One one hand, if it becomes an idol or is out of covetousness ("keeping up with the Jones'), then yeah, it's bad in that sense!. But it could also be rewarding, useful, and are a sacrificial service (in money, time, effort, sweat, etc) to your wife and your family. It could be matter of pursuing good things while also being a good steward of resources -- do we get the huge professional Waring range from Williams-Sonoma, or get a nice range on sale at Lowe's or Sears?
Some of the things are clear "No...won't miss that, will even regret it." Whereas other things....it comes down to a heart issue, I guess is what I'm saying.
Including porn in that list is just goofy. Porn is immoral, whereas the other things aren't of the same category at all.
To some degree, I think that on the other side of eternity, I would have peace knowing that I spent some time enjoying the life God allowed me to live - that I wasn't always running around trying to be the savior of the world myself, and having a mentality that there is a wretched urgency that I constantly need to panic about.
Watching a TV show, I can be impressed by God in the sense that I can be aware that He's the giver of creativity, imagination, and technological intelligence.
Yeah, the porn in the list actually got edited out after I copied his post. You can click over to his site to see his edit. Probably wise, but I think I know where he was going with it.
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he's equating porn to facebook and caffeine? yikes.
Perhaps in a sense he is doing that... but probably not in the way you are taking it. He has since edited his post which you can read if you click on the link. I would give him the benefit of the doubt.
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