Be Cautious - No One Lives Forever

Today while I boarded a bus heading to my destination, a man seated close to me and he started preaching to us all in the bus. Firstly I too felt like ooooh not again, like he was going to disturb us all, but we all couldn't say anything, it's a free world, he paid his fare just like anyone of us and if he chooses to preach then he can. So I kept quiet, we all kept quiet and the man kept preaching. Maybe I would have put on my earphones and listen to my music while the journey lasted, but the battery was low and a part of the earphone stopped working yesterday, so I didn't, now I have to listen as that is the only good sound I can hear.

Among the many things spoken, i must admit that one caught my attention, It got me pondering real deep. I can't quote him fully but I'll paraphrase, and he said "Many of us feel like we have our lives forever, we do things like we have secured our tomorrow, maybe we are forgetting that we all have a short time, boom. We all have a short time, hmm you say, I felt like maybe others too may want to disagree in heart but we all kept quiet, hoping he would explain further. I too know certainly that most people live their lives like they are here to stay. In a way it's good, in a way it's bad, all depends on the intended action.

While I started pondering a story played out in my head, peradventure a man traveled for a contract job and had to live his mansion to go work on the streets, now he knows for a certain that he has to go back soon to his comfortable life, over hear he gets married and gives birth to a son, it's been 10 years already and all the son knows is that your father has a mansion and soon we would be living this place, so be cautious while you stay here, cause someday anyday, we maybe asked to pack and go back to the good life. Imagine the life of the son, not the man, the man is certain about his good life, moreover he built it himself, however the son hasn't experienced it himself, he only believes his parents.

That becomes his Hope and his boast, the son would tell his friends about where he is going to, even he would say it more enticing than the parents did tell him. Should they be managing the little they have at the moment, they would be managing it with joy and hope cause they know someday, we are leaving this life and going to the good life already prepared, its not getting prepared, no its already prepared. He may not have cloths, but his attitude and charisma speaks wealth cause he is aware of what he has, yet he hasn't seen. He bears for now, cause as soon as it's over, it's going to be enjoyment enjoyment enjoyment, to the extent people wants to become friends not cause of how he is not, but cause of who he is.

Same applies to us, we haven't seen the other life promised by God and jesus, all we do is to believe him and so we live in hope that one day, we are headed to a place where we would live forever and be happy forever. Many of us don't see that there would be much more fun and enjoyment than ever experienced over there in heaven and it is only logical that we fight to go there like with al our mind and heart. Nothing beats heaven, not a vacation on the beach side of Miami, not a tour of Dubai's most expensive hotels, not a spaceship exhibition of planets, nothing on earth can compete the excitement we are coming to get. And for the most important factor in it all, that's going to be forever.

Forever is sometimes not understand in the context and importance it should, maybe because in the movies we often make use of the word forever, yet it doesn't truly last forever. But in reality forever means no ending, means not limited in time, infact totally beyond time. For the oldest man who could live longest, he can't get up to a 1000 years, oops he can't get up to that divided by 2, wait a minute, he still can't get to 200, but let's say 1000 years just for the sake of exaggeration, it still wouldn't be a pinch off forever, I mean it wouldn't be a 0.000000001 percent of forever, so if we really want to do the math right, we should care more about forever, than we care for now.

In a way we need to have this at the back of our minds, that there is somewhere more. Ther is somewhere we are heading to soon. Maybe not that soon according to world standard, but in God's eyes who says 1000 years is like a day, to him its very soon. So let's our actions be guided, to the best of our ability let's see to make our stay here an addition to the reason why we must earn our placement in heaven, indeed life is sweet and all wants to enjoy it, oh God wants us to enjoy it too. We knows our left from right, our right from wrong, let's try, try to make here count.

So I thought during the journey as the preachers voice played underneath like a soundtrack amidst voices, and I could see the need for him to do that, he wasn't making noise, neither was he trying to enforce christ in anyone, it was only trying to get our consciousness awoken again, more like hey guys what are you doing, we are here temporarily. Indeed it's more like a call out, and if only one person could receive the word and ponder on it, just like I did, then he did a good job, getting people to change is not up to him, he can only speak and let God do the rest.

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