No matter how powerful, rich and influential you are or poor, weak and unpopular, the news of one's end time is always taken with a piece of salt, the word "DEATH". Funny enough, every man knows that death is certain, an inevitable end but he is heedless, unprepared for it. Each time our relative or the next door neighbor died, we console ourself and given self assured the our's is yet to come. How little is our knowledge, knowing that we have never been involved in creating ourself nor the creator engaged us in creation, forgotten that we live under the commands of the creator.
On the 25th December, 2014, I travelled home to sympathized with my elder sister who loss her husband. On getting home, I was told that we loss an elderly man in the village and they were about to bury him at that moment. I decided to follow the congregation to the cemetery before going to see my sister. I am very familiar with the village cemetery, I used to go there when ever we loss somebody in the village but that was a long time ago. Today, I find myself in the village cemetery looking strange to me though I saw it in my dream a night before. I could not recognized the position my mother was buried ten years ago, not to talk of my father, thirty two years ago. Today, comes another victim, not because God hate him but because today is his end time. His children, relative, friends were there but all left him when we were leaving, no one was sympathetic enough to stay behind or was any of his properties given to him. Oh what a life full of vanity up on vanity all is vanity, what a wasted effort if he did not earned forgiveness from his LORD, what a terrible and horrible place was the grave if he did not earned GOD mercy. Preachers have been telling us time without number, just like today, how worthless is our coming to the world if we did not work according to the will of God, yet we are heedless, stubborn, deceiving ourself that our time is yet to come. We waste so much time on things that are not beneficiary to us forgotten that death have no notices. The old, young, rich, poor, strong, weak must die one day and thereafter judgement day.
Today, remind yourself that you no longer have the time to waste, seek for the forgiveness of your sin, reconsign with your LORD and your neighbor, be your brother keeper. Let the lord live in you any moment of your day so that you can have peace when your time comes, death the necessary end.
