Ending Attitude
I do realize that movies are not reality so when it’s based on a true story, I have realize that it might not end well. I remember a movie that came out in the late nineties that asked the question: “How will it all end?” The movie had an interesting ending and Truman escaped the fake life he had been living for many years.
As I reached and passed the fifty-year-old mark, I began wondering more often how will my life end? Will it be cancer, car wreck, a heart event, old age or what? I look at elderly people different. Many of them are beating the odds and living longer lives. There are certain sicknesses that are the beginning of the end. I realize that I have very little control how my life ends, but I can control my attitude as I live out my life.
Job was in the middle of what he thought was a bad ending to his life. He was suffering greatly and I think death would have been a friend to him. He was pushing through day in and day out of significant pain and suffering. Check this out…
15 Terrors overwhelm me;
my dignity is driven away as by the wind,
my safety vanishes like a cloud.
16 ‘And now my life ebbs away;
days of suffering grip me.
17 Night pierces my bones;
my gnawing pains never rest.
18 In his great power God becomes like clothing to me;
he binds me like the neck of my garment.
23 I know you will bring me down to death,
to the place appointed for all the living.
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, then came darkness.
27 The churning inside me never stops;
days of suffering confront me. (Job 30:15-18, 23,26-27 NIV)
The bad ending doesn’t have to be a bad ending. My life and everyone living here on earth die at some point. I want to keep my head up and trust the Lord until my last breath. My last breath here represents my first day in heaven with the Lord. I would be wise to see this life as preparatory for the next life. I’m thankful for the faithfulness and the patience of Job. I am inspired to keep my head up and my heart right before the Lord all the days of my life. I do want my days on earth to count for the Lord instead of just count my days until they end. I want my life to be significant for His Kingdom.
Pressing On!
Dwayne