Hello Beloved Family,
I have a challenge for you all.
I want you to imagine you have six months to live and there is no recourse. All you will be able to do is pray, read, crucify your flesh, and go to church for your spiritual assurance. If there is no recourse, then you will need to settle all personal matters before you depart this world, needing to face Father God, the Judge.
How will you live to assure your salvation? How will you walk those six months? How will your faith be expressed? Who will you see to mend relationships? Who will you pay back what you owe? What will you prepare for your kids and wife so they can sustain and be sovereign?
How will your attitude be for the next six months? What will you do in regards to the old man (your flesh)? How will you treat people? How will you respond to those who are not so kind to you? How will you think of people who encounter each other on a daily basis? How will you serve? Will you continue to argue with your spouse? Will you care and still get irritated over trivial matters? How will you respond to life knowing you only have six months to live?
Will you party, drink, and eat for six months and experience what you could not? You will let it all go and eat everything in sight and let your body hang? Will you try crack for the first time? Will you go on a porn binge? Six-month Netflix binge? Or if you had an addiction, would you just give in to your addiction, knowing it would take you to hell? Or will you use the next six months to cut off the addiction with all your spiritual crying out to God, knowing you must not die in your sin or addictions?
Or will you audit your life, making sure you owe no one except love? Or will nothing change, and you will live as though you have many good years left?
You may write down your journey or what you will and are doing, and read your notes at the end of six months.
Additional Comments:
How would your repentance look like for six months?
What fruit would you be bearing for the final six months?
Maybe someone really has only has six months to live?
Senior Pastor Steve Kim