Final Day

Luke 21:34-36 

Don’t spend all of your time thinking about eating or drinking or worrying about life. If you do, the final day will suddenly catch you like a trap. That day will surprise everyone on earth. Watch out and keep praying that you can escape all that is going to happen and that the Son of Man will be pleased with you.

 

We really don’t know when the last day of this world will be we don’t know when He’ll come; we don’t know when He’ll return. We have no idea if it’ll be today, tomorrow, a month from now, years from now, or even if it’s a few eternities away. We have no idea.

 

It could be possible and impossible at the same time. It could be now or tomorrow. It could be in this generation or it could be in the next.

 

What we’re sure of however, is that it will happen.

 

I’ve been thinking of this verse all throughout the year. Thinking about what will happen if I witness the event myself.

 

Will I be happy that everything’s finally over and we get to go home? Will I be scared? Will I be disappointed in what little I have done in my life? Will I be unprepared? Will I want more time? Or will I be ready?

 

Answer: a little bit of everything.

 

What I am not, however, is worried. I do not worry about the Final day. I don’t have time to worry about it. Because all I have is now, all I’m ever sure of is now. And there is no time to worry about the future when you don’t even know if there’s going to be one.

 

So I try to live as much as I could now. I try to do as much as I could now. I love people now. I’ll be generous now. I’ll make sure my friends and family know how much I care about them now.

 

Because what if there is no tomorrow? What if it all ends today?

 

There is no time for regret and there is no time for worry. I mean, if you were to die today, what will you have time for?

 

Me? I’ll have time for love. I will spend my time giving love. Because isn’t that what living is all about? Isn’t that what Jesus taught us? To love.

 

Love your enemies. Love your parents. Love your neighbor. Love yourself.

 

Love everyone as He has loved you.

 

Jesus did not live that long on earth either, but I am sure he did not waste time. I am sure He spent every single waking day trying to love, and teaching people how to love.

 

He has cured people of diseases and drove demons out of their bodies not because he wanted to be famous. He did not die on that cross just to be known or just so he could show off.
 

No. Whatever he did for us, for his people, he did out of love. The Bible is so clear about that. Jesus did everything out of love; for God is love.

 

He died on the cross just to show us that he was willing to sacrifice his own life for us. He showed us what love is, what it can conquer, what it can do, and who it is for.

 

Love is for us. We are made for us, for we are made for God. There is nothing in this world that could ever separate us from God’s love. We are made for love and we are made to love.
 

No one, and I mean no one, is undeserving of love. Everyone deserves love and everyone is looking for it.

 

Everyone deserves God and everyone is looking for God. No matter how much they deny this truth.

 

People are made to love and they are made for love.

 

And no religion, or sin, or disability, or gender, or past, or sickness, or label, or status, can ever separate us from love. We are all deserving of love.

 

And we are deserving of a chance to live in this earth just to love.

 

The Final day should not be a day we should be afraid of. I feel like it’ll be a day of peace, because finally we’ll be home. We’ll be home to love. We’ll be home to God.

 

So until the Final day comes, love now. Love people now. Love your enemies now. Love your family now. Love.

 

It is never too late to love.