Time Bomb

You are really only a puff of smoke, a mist that is visible for a little while and then disappears into thin air

ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:14

你 们 原 来 是 一 片 云 雾 ， 出 现 少 时 就 不 见 了

雅 各 書 4:14

Ricky died last night after a coma. Doctor said that his blood vein burst in his brain...because his was too thin. He was 21 years young...

Sigh...

I reflected on my friend's breaking news for a while....

I suddenly remembered the words of wisdom revealed to me a long time back...

"We are all living on a borrowed time...We never know when we have to payback..."

My colleague joked when we had dinner together. He said, "吃一顿，少一顿"(lit:eat one meal, less one meal). I paused for a while and said, "过一天，少一天"(lit:pass one day, less one day). He said, "That is very true"...

When I drove him back to his hotel, I told him, "What if I propose a toast in a birthday party...shouting "过一年，少一年"(lit:pass one year, less one year)? That would be cool". He said, "The birthday man would throw you out of his party..."

Yet, is it not very true? The longer we live, the nearer we are to death...

Do we all realize that we have a time bomb implanted in our bodies? We just never know when it is going to explode.

In the case of that 21 year young boy, the bomb was in the form of very thin blood vein in his brain and it exploded recently.

What is your bomb? Cancer?Stroke?Heart attack? You will never know, let alone when it will explode...

Are we supposed to be paralyzed with fear then? Are we supposed to be frantically searching for the bomb and remove it?

Indeed there are time bombs in our lives that we know we should remove...but not this particular one though...

This time bomb, we ought to accept and even embrace...knowing that the nature of life is so fleeting...so transient...

We count our days...not years. We take action now...not next year. Screw the New Year's resolution...that is only the devil's plot of trying to keep you in inaction...Why do we wait for a certain day to do something special? Everyday is indeed special for something special...

Even when you can breathe easily today...that is special...

Knowing that hundreds of people hide and hold their breath whenever the missiles hit their villages in Afghanistan...

Knowing that today you might slid into coma suddenly, just like Ricky...

We cannot really choose how we die...but we can choose how we live. Hopefully in the process of choosing a better life...we have a better death...

Now what is a better death? It is while dying...you are seeking "Life"...

I am the Resurrection and the Life. Anyone who believes in Me will live, even after dying...
--Yeshua Ha'mashiach--