THE LAST CHECK

Whereas you do not know what will

happen tomorrow. For what is

your life? It is even a vapor that

appears for a little time and

then vanishes away.

James 4:14

Bev and I were sitting in the living room where I think I was reading and she was writing checks. Brian left her with our finances and continues to handle things very efficiently like her Dad would.

She mentioned something to me that gave me pause to think about. As she was writing the info of checks on the pages of the check register, she mentioned how much she had appreciated having the writing of her Dad in the first part of the register where he had written checks before going to Heaven. She's at the end of the register and will need to begin another one, minus her Dad's hand writing.

Bev had made note of the last check Brian had written. I couldn't guess what it could have been. She said that the last check he wrote was on 2-12-22, just twelve days prior to his Homegoing. She said the last check he wrote was to Broadway Baptist Church, our home church. How fitting that his last written check on earth would be to the church both of us love.

I don't think Brian had any idea that in twelve days, Whereas you do not know what would be with the Lord. I'm not sure we human beings have seriously faced the fact that the day will come when we are going to die. We tend to live life, no matter our age, like death will never come to us or to those we love. I've thought off and on that perhaps the Lord will came and take all His children to Heaven n one fell swoop.

I wonder what the last thing I will do before the Lord comes for me. Will I be fixing a sandwich, taking a bath, sleeping, walking a path in the mountains or perhaps in the hospital after a procedure. We don't think of these things very often. We see life as just moving on and on...death isn't something we want to talk about. The very best of Christians can speak of death in a very spiritual way, with no apparent fear or anticipation. Jesus didn't look forward to death. It was what He came to earth to do on our behalf, but the experience wasn't any human being would look forward to.

Perhaps we should live a day as if it could be our last. If we knew that for a fact, I wonder how we would spend it? I would hope you and I would live each day to our fullest in pleasing the Lord and others even if it should come down to writing our very last check.

Father, You gave us Jesus that our last day as a believer would bring us into Your presence. Help us to always be reaching to be in right relationship with You in humbly serving and loving You as well as others. Help us to not take life for granted and live each day for Your glory. In Jesus' precious name...Amen