Did you know that statistics show that 1 out of every 1 people die at some point in their lives? I know that is a staggering stat, but I don’t think we look at things that way very often. Did you know that the variable in that stat is not if someone dies, but instead when!? You and I cannot predict when that will be with any degree of certainty.
I bring this up as last week a guy I played basketball with died in an accident. It kind of shook me I have to be honest. He was 19 when he died. Todd had started coming to play basketball with us at the church on Sundays last fall/winter. He was a pretty good player and with some work many of us thought he’d be very good. But, the other night that promise was taken in a car accident.
Now I’m not writing all of this to bum people out. Instead, I want to make a point and use Todd and myself as an example. Todd came to church off and on although this summer he was working all the time trying to get a better car. Before he’d made that decision he was scheduled to play softball with the church team. I had thought how great of an opportunity that was going to be as that way we’d all have more opportunities to witness and mentor him. When he decided to work instead of play I just figured that I’d have more opportunities in the future to do those same things.
Isn’t it funny how we have those same plans with people all the time? We just figure that we’ll have more time to be a witness into other people’s lives, or that someone else will do it for us instead? We deny ourselves the opportunities given by God because we figure there will be more. Well, with Todd there was not.
How many people have you put off witnessing to because you didn’t want to spend the time that day or were too busy doing something else, etc.? Don’t expect those opportunities to keep coming, as God has other plans than ours at times. Spend time witnessing and mentoring others whenever you are given the opportunity….you never know when those opportunities will end.
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