Friday, May 24, 2013

Living on Borrowed Time?

Due to the generally poor prognosis for pancreatic cancer patients, if I live beyond 5 more years, people may say “he's living on borrowed time!” That aside, life expectancy for an American male is 77? Does that mean one who is 78 is  “living on borrowed time?”

“Borrowed time” is not explicitly biblical. But delayed judgment is. That God is “slow to anger and abounding in loving kindness” and “His mercy endures forever” are the things we love to hear.  But we'd rather not think about the end of His patience. “The patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, while the Ark was being built”—120 years! (1 Pet 3:20)  But it did end.  And the day of judgment came, as promised!  Are we living in the days of Noah? (Matt. 24)

Currently, in this Age of Grace, God is extending time for all to become believers in Christ. In my present circumstances, I am sensitive to the possibly-shortened time I have to become a better 'believer.'  Though my time might end sooner than expected, so might all of ours - with the return of Christ.  So then, aren't we all living on borrowed time? Given such sobering truth, Peter asks, “What kind of people ought you to be? (2 Pet 3:11). I think one answer is, ‘people who act like they are living on borrowed time.’

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