If you were privy to the knowledge that within five minutes you would pass away what would you do? No seriously? What regrets would you reconsider? What wrongs would you make right? What people would you forgive because to hold the grudge you are holding well seems really silly now – I mean with five minutes left. Would you spend more time with God? Was there really time and you chose to allocate it to something so trivial?
Seems pretty intense, huh? Well, the truth is we could all be literally living in that last five minutes. The thing with death is that it is no respecter of persons. We will all die. (Proverbs 27:1) Seriously. What would you do different? Well now that I have you down, let me pick you up! You have more than five minutes! Hopefully you have years upon years – BUT! Live life as if you only have those five minutes, few hours or even a generous 24 hours left.
Life is not worth getting caught up in the snaggles of arguments, discontents, waste of time, and waste of energy. Tomorrow is promised to no one. Every day is literally a gift from God. (Ecclesiastes 9). So go. Live life. Forgive generously. Love greatly. Give freely. Don’t put off tomorrow what you can do today. Now go, conqueror the day!