Last Day

We humans are obsessed with keeping lists and organizing our lives.
We count down our calenders with great zeal and this being the last day of 2009, there will be many celebrations tonight.
Celebrations for what?
For simply having made it another year?
For having come to grips with our mortality?
Or is it simple a good reason to drink more than we should, eat more than we need to and cast aside our Morales in an effort to live up to the phrase, 'Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.' Not a very happy entrance to 2010 is it?
Yet tonight, millions all over this planet will gather to celebrate.
Maybe it's a way to make us feel good about ourselves.
That when we actually stop to take stock of our life, we find our self in the liability row rather than on the asset side. That would be sobering also wouldn't it? To think that your life so far has counted for nothing. To come to the realization that you you have just wasted 365 presents given to you by God. Wow! Let's celebrate and forget about all this heavy duty responsibility.

I'm not saying we should all run off to the middle East and become monks and monk-ettes. I am saying that we should realize what life here on this planet was given to us for.
John 17:3 - And this is eternal life, to know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.
To know....
To be intimate with, not simply a nod of the head with an ascent to intellectualizing this relationship.
To consider for one moment that you have survived these past 365 days not because of your wits or smarts or street savvy, but because God saw fit for you to. That somewhere along the way of these 365 days, God, in fact, was speaking to you. Maybe you missed what He said or maybe you heard it but chose to ignore it. I don't know. I do know that we don't have time here in this world to simply fritter way this gift He has given to us.

SO here we are today, December 31, 2009.
There will never be another 12/31/09 are experiencing it right now.
So did you become a little more like Jesus this year?
Did you study His word and fall in love with his teachings?
Did you practice what you read in your everyday life?
Did you learn to love more, not as the world would have you love but as we are instructed by Jesus?
I think we have the makings of a good years in 2010.
Let's not waste today.
Happy New Year and............
God on you...........
mb