I don’t usually have a title until the end of my thoughts, but today’s title was the first thing I wrote down in my notes. I’m sure it doesn’t read as though it’s good news, but just hear me out.

I agree, death is hard. I agree, death is saddening. I agree that it can albeit make the hearer and/or bearer of its news want to follow suit. I know because I’ve experienced it, too. But death truly is a “godly” sorrow and rather than focus on it, why not focus on life? I’ll throw in that there’s a death to be lived so that your soul may be right when you truly leave this earth.

We are given the same 24 hours over and over until death comes. The believers back in Noah’s day were given a sum of 120 years to repent and begin/improve their relationships with the Lord. They lived life, but their focus was on the wrong things in life. You know that old sayin’, “don’t put off ’til tomorrow what you can do today?” Well, we make of it what we wish and if we die having not known Christ or taken time to repent, we go to the grave truly having wasted life.

When you read 2 Corinthians 7:8-10, don’t stop there. Go back and read that entire chapter, asking the Lord to give you divine discernment for how it can help you today. When we work diligently and plan accordingly, we make the best use of our daily living. If we begin and end the day with thoughts on how we can die to the flesh in order to glorify God, we set up ourselves up to avoid worldly sorrow. I feel so blessed to share this with you today and I pray it makes such a huge difference in your next 24 hours.

READ: Zechariah 16: 6-9; Matthew 24:36-44

LISTEN: https://youtu.be/9jWfcodc_nw?si=wBQetnR5W7Py-TV6 “Come Out of that Grave” (Resurrection Power) by Bethel Music featuring Brandon Lake