“It’s Never Too Late to Be Who You Might Have Been.”

A thought by Mark Batterson, Richard Foth, and Susanna Foth Aughtmon (2015-04-28) from their book, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime (p. 192). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

I love that thought. Mark shares, “It is not too late to rewrite your epitaph. It’s a living document. An epitaph is not the period at the end of our life sentence. It’s the prologue to our eternal story. How you live out your days on this earth will determine how you will live out your days in eternity.”

Margaret and I were saying this morning as I was taking her to work that we are living right now the best days of our life. Now we have not lived tomorrow yet but we are really enjoying life as we know it today. Oh there are some difficulties in our life, some challenges but in living out what we have experienced we have learned how to really enjoy what we have no matter what it is. We are not done we still have some exciting years here and then we have the eternal reward ahead in our future.

I like how Mark says it, “We are God’s playfellows in this grand game called life. And the good news, the best news, is this: the adventure never ends! Let your epitaph be written in a way that shouts of the goodness and greatness of God. And all of the heavens will echo an eternal ‘Amen.’ Destiny is not a mystery. Destiny is a decision. Choose adventure.”

That is my choice. I have chosen the adventure of living life with God. It is a life that will never end. “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3: 16 NLT) That is a life to be lived. A life of faith, hope and love. A life filled with adventure with God.

So why not today believe in HIM?

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