2 Timothy 4:6
6 For [gar] I [ego] am [spendo] now [ede] ready to be offered, [spendo] and [kai] the time [kairos] of my [emos] departure [analusis] is at hand. [ephistemi] KJV-Interlinear
6 For I am
already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has
come. NASB
As a person advances in
age, there almost always comes a time when they look back and wonder just to where
all of those prior years of their life, have vanished.
Wasn’t it just yesterday
when we were all young? How could ten
years, twenty years, forty years have just slipped by with but a blink. When we were young the future seemed sooo far
off, and now the past seems to have vanished without much trace. Even the memories have faded.
In history there have
been famous people of note, that have commented as to their life and their value.
Napoleon said, ‘I die
before my time; and my body will be given back to earth, to become the food of
worms.’
Gandhi, confessed, ‘My
days are numbered. I am not likely to live very long — perhaps a year or a
little more. For the first time in fifty years I find myself in a slough of
despond. All about me is darkness. I am praying for light.’
Talleyrand wrote, ‘Behold,
eighty-three years passed away! What cares! What agitation! What anxieties!
What ill-will! What sad complications! And all without other results, except
great fatigue of mind and body, and a profound sentiment of discouragement with
regard to the future, and of disquiet with regard to the past!’
And here we have Paul who
is well aware that his life is nearing its end. And yet without regret, without
any indication of sadness, without any complaint, Paul will make a statement of
confident accomplishment, hope and destiny.
Far too many people go
through life believing that they have all the time in the world. They know the stories of God and Christ and
heaven and so forth. They know of the
stories of blessings and reward, and mansions and more. But the connection to
these future realities never seems to enter into their daily life, during their
life.
And time passes by,
tic-toc, tic-toc, and suddenly all of that extra future time which is sooo far
off, is suddenly behind you.
And you wake up in
dismay, wondering just what you have accomplished.
Then you turn to the
things you have. Your family, your
career, your certificates, your possessions.
But, these are just details of life and external to your life. They are
not your life inside of your soul.
You are well aware that
as you near the final closing of your eyes to this world, all of those things
will vanish from you and remain behind.
So what do you really have?
Nothing.
For a long time we have
studied the Bible teaching that you are writing your own song, your own story
for your life, and one day it will be presented before Christ. Will your book be full of what God expects or
just a bunch of empty pages?
And so Paul introduces
to us, a hard fact of life, that none of us will ever be able to avoid – the end
of our life.
Have we obeyed Christ
with respect to our spiritual life?
Or, have we ignored all
of the warnings, all of the mandates, and invented our own way through life
because our way is more convenient and in tuned to how we want things to be,
regardless of what the Bible says.
And far too many people
think this way, and will one day look behind them and realize that they really
lack the spiritual assets that they should have pursued, but did not.
So now, you have the
opportunity to avoid making that mistake, the biggest mistake of your
life. By getting yourself on track with
a daily Bible study, with regular confession, with a daily program that will complete
your life as it was designed to be completed, and with fulfilling your meaning
and purpose as God intended for you.
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