I was listening to a sermon yesterday morning that described how all of us go through life and at one point, a trapdoor will open beneath us and we'll fall out of this life. What will happen after that is that we'll either fall into nothingness, or we'll fall into the waiting arms of our eternal God. At that moment when that trapdoor opens, nothing else can save us -- no matter how much money is in our bank account or how hard we've worked or how sterling our reputation is. The only thing that can save us is the grace of God, waiting to catch us as we fall.
Many of us, myself included, spend our lives ignoring the reality of the trapdoor. We don't like to think about it... so we don't. We fill our lives, often with many good and worthwhile things, whistling past anything that would dare remind us of that trapdoor.
Some people completely ignore the trapdoor, opting for idols that they think might be able to save them, only to discover later on that the promises the idols made to deliver were worthless.
The Lord is high over all the earth. We'll all discover this someday. May we live with wisdom in the here and now, aware of the trapdoor and grateful that there is a God there to catch us when we fall through it. We don't have to live in fear of it, which means that we can spend our lives serving others, just as God serves us.
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