Life is a Vapor
The above photo is what was left after a guy ran a red light and took the life of David Mann, a fellow street evangelist and Facebook friend that was 26 years young. Now, both David and the driver that ran the red light are in eternity. That is how fast we can go from this life to the next, yet most of us live as if we will never die. This is why Biblical evangelists do what they do. Call us wide-eyed fanatics, misguided zealots, or specially gifted, but before you do, please consider the above picture. Hell is real and Biblical evangelists are those who are convinced from the bottom of their hearts that the most loving thing they could do is to warn you of it and preach the gospel so that you may be saved from God's impending wrath. We do so even if it gets a little loud, a little inconvenient, and even if it makes you (and us) pretty uncomfortable. All we are trying to do is live out a God-entranced worldview in light of our specific gifting. Because we love you enough to tell you the truth, we may seem a little weird to you. However, I'd rather be interpreted as a loon by you than be ashamed to use my evangelistic gifts to glorify Jesus. Please contemplate the following verses. In light of David's death, I sure have:
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” 14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” 16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin. James 4:13-17
Wow, Dusman, I am sorry to hear about your friend and brother. My prayers are with you and his family.
ReplyDeleteThanks John.
ReplyDelete"Now, both David and the driver that ran the red light are in eternity."
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, but they're not. They're both dead, and at least one of them wasted the only life he had on trying to convince disinterested strangers that his delusions were real.
THAT'S the real tragedy.
Alex B. said:
ReplyDelete"I'm sorry, but they're not. They're both dead, and at least one of them wasted the only life he had on trying to convince disinterested strangers that his delusions were real. THAT'S the real tragedy."
On atheism, ultimately, there's nothing inherently better about living life telling others what's true vs. living life telling others about "delusions." THAT'S the real tragedy.
Alex B. wishes that he weren't accountable to the God of the Bible, but wishful thinking can't change reality, thus he will one day stand before his Maker, the Triune One true and living God.
ReplyDeleteAnd unless he finds mercy in Christ before that day he will face inflexible justice and eternal wrath poured out in full measure upon him forever and ever "where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
THAT'S the real tragedy.