What Would You Do If You Had Seven Days Left?
Well, however you want to interpret this illustration or try to debunk it, I have a question. If that happened and you came to understand that in all likelihood you had less than one week left on this earth as did everyone and…
Begin with what is true
Well, however you want to interpret this illustration or try to debunk it, I have a question. If that happened and you came to understand that in all likelihood you had less than one week left on this earth as did everyone and everything else, you had full confidence and expectation with no other explanation that God was doing this, and as soon as twenty four hours passed after it said one day left, it would be all over.
Suddenly put into your life and your neighbor's life and every human being's life would be this very powerful Bible centric quality call urgency.
See God more clearly
Now you can look up the word smart, it means the ability to process inputs, to understand what you're being taught, to reach logical conclusions. And so if there was a countdown in the sky, as it got down to four days left, and then 24 hours later three days left, I think I'd be smart about that, don't you?
And what that means is, as urgency is introduced quite heavily into my life, I would evaluate the things I haven't been doing and I would do them.
Let faith shape the response
Wouldn't it be awesome if you saw those words across the sky and everybody figured out what was going on and we all knew the trumpet was coming and we were preparing for the return of Jesus and the day of judgment, and you didn't have to spend the whole week apologizing to folks? Or admitting sin or changing your life or suddenly becoming evangelistic?
What if you had been living your life, your entire Christian life, growing and working on it, of course, nobody's perfect here, but you'd been working on it, direction, not position.
Live it today
We will not be seeing seven days left across the sky, wherein we can all stand out there holding hands, looking up at that exact moment when it goes from one day left to Jesus with his mighty angels and flaming fire. We have to have that sense of peace and readiness without the countdown.
Folks, that's going to take not just being smart, that's going to take wisdom, a real sense of understanding the imminent return of Jesus and the passing nature of this life, and get ready now as if you were in the middle of a countdown.
Take the idea with you.
- 01Where does the central idea of “What Would You Do If You Had Seven Days Left” show up most clearly in my life right now?
- 02What does this episode call me to believe, stop, start, or handle differently?
- 03What is one specific action I can take today instead of merely agreeing with the idea?
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This article was adapted from Episode 79 · Seven Days Left. Continue with the podcast for the original teaching in Kris’s voice.
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