Do you know how I would complete that sentence? Here’s how, “I would do exactly as I am doing right now from the very start of my intellectual maturity. As soon as I realized I was redeemed by a marvelous Savior, I would do exactly as I am doing right now each day I lived.”
Each day we live is God’s gift to us. How we live out that day is our gift to God. I’m trying to pile up lots of gifts in God’s great storeroom – fill it to overflowing. I would like to think when I enter that other world, that eternal world of the spirit, that some angelic messenger of the Eternal might lead me to a great vault, open the door and say, “There is everything you gave the Master,” and stare in awe and wonder at how great is the room and how high are all the gifts I gave to Him. Turning to the angel, I might say, “But I only started giving Him my gifts, my labors, my devotion, my obedience and all quite late!!!” only to hear the angel say, “Well, He put it all in that room.” “Then they that feared the Lord spoke often to one another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that taught upon his name. And they shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son that serves him” (Malachi 3:16-17).
Yesterday the clerk at the post office said, “You’re our best customer this week.” Wouldn’t it be grand to have Jesus meet you with similar words, “You were my best representative in the town where you lived.” The clerk was referring to the great quantity of Bible study articles I bring to the post office to be mailed to hundreds of pastors throughout the United States and two foreign countries.
Yep, I think I am going to live a long, long time…..(As of this date, March 7, 2025, I am now 82 years old.)
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley