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Six Months —or Loss—to Live R ecently on a radio program three eminent men of letters discussed the old yet ever-intriguing question, “How would you spend your time if you had but six months to live?” It was a strange experience to listen to men who evidently had no personal knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour giving their views on this solemn theme. They treated the subject with lightness, but not with scorn. They agreed they would do the things they most enjoyed. They would find it a time of relaxation, with all the tensions which grow out of rivalry and conflict with their fellows removed. They would doubtless he better men, easier to get along with. But what struck me most as a Christian was the total lack of recognition of any life beyond this one or acknowledgment of any accountability to God for the way this life had been spent. By contrast, an actual case recently occurred of one who did receive just such a sentence of death. This was no hypothetical incident. A co laborer in the vineyard of the Lord, a Christian woman of middle age, very bright and active, was informed by her physician that she was suffering from an incurable and inoperable cancer and, therefore, had only two or three months to live at most. The medical man was right, for this friend is now with the Lord. What does a Christian do when he knows his time on this earth is lim ited to a span of a few months? Well, this is what this Christian woman did: She had always witnessed to her unsaved loved ones; now she redou bled her efforts to win them for Christ. She had always been a woman of prayer; now she went out of her way to gather requests for missionaries and needy souls and spent hours more in prayer. Always quiet and gentle, she was more compassionate than ever and spent a great deal of time with the little children to whom she was related, realizing that they had the “mileage” now denied to her. She bore her burden with fortitude and grace and faith in God. She knew where she was going and ap proximately when, and her greatest desire was to have others follow her. When the time came, she went quickly, with dignity and with a smile of ineffable peace upon her face so that she literally glorified God in her death as well as in her life. We are all aware of the fact that if we knew how limited were our days, we should do more witnessing, more praying, more giving of our selves to the things that please God. The trivia of our lives would drop away if we had but a few months to live. And in God’s Word we are told: “ . . . For what is your life? It is even a vapour, [or a breath] that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (James 4:14). Only a breath divides us from eternity. How then dare we live as if we had even six months, or six years, or 60 years? And of the Lord’s coming we read in Mark 13:35,36: “ . . . ye know not when . . . Lest suddenly coming he find you sleeping.” However, it is not the imminency of our departure from this life that is most important; it is the quality of life that we live every day. Paul admonished us to “ Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.” Let us fill the days, the hours and the minutes, with the joy of the Lord and unremitting labor for Him that we be not ashamed before Him at His coming. Above all, let us not put off the good deeds that we intend to do—while we have strength and health and mind to perform them. The scriptural word is “Now—today” not “ Tomorrow.”
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