Let’s reframe our mortality by using it to empower us for eternal purposes. Let’s seize every day as God’s gift to be employed for his glory and the good of others. Let’s love our Lord and our neighbor with passion and service (Mark 12:30-31). If we do, we’ll experience the transforming presence of Christ and the abundant life he alone can give (John 10:10).
It seems that reminders of our mortality have dominated the news lately, and, unlike a marathon, none of us know where the finish line is for us.
The desperate race for immortality is not an attempt to reverse the effects of sin. Rather, it reflects just how desperate man – without God – is to exert complete control over the cosmos, and to have life on our own terms.
