That’s a verse from Ecclesiastes 12:1

Every time I hear that someone I knew died, my heart beats at a different pace, I slowly move into a “thinking mood”, I feel very strange. What grips me most is not so much the death in itself (although it depends on my relationship with the person who died), but it is the fact that this person met God. I don’t know why, but when I start thinking about this whole thing, it feels so strange. I am not comfortable going places I’ve never been before, and thinking that one day it will be my turn, I will no longer live in this physical world, I will meet my Creator. So it makes me feel uncomfortable because I’ve never been there and it’s not a place I can even start thinking I know how it is.

I didn’t know the guy very much. I talked to him a few times because I happened to be around at Bible School maybe a year or two ago. But he died, last Sunday night, probably when I was at Tim Hortons’ playing a board game with a few friends. It makes me think, if this guy died at 20 years old or around that age, what about my life and the lives of my ciblings, or close friends? It’s all about God, what He wants and allows to happen, I can’t do anything to change a single one hour of my life or the life of anybody else on earth. I don’t know when this time will come when God will ask my big brother, myLord Jesus to come pick me up and give me a ride home, I don’t know. We all think it won’t happen to us before we’re 80, or actually, most of us don’t think about dying at all. Why? I don’t know, probably because we don’t think we have a reason to think about it, we’re healthy and young (for those who ar healthy and young).

But the Word of God says that we, young people, should remember our Creator, right now. What does it mean? I’m not sure. Maybe it is to remember God is here and we’ll meet Him one day, that we should be at peace with Him today, because we don’t know about tomorrow. I don’t know.

Some Christians are scared to meet God when they die. I feel that way sometimes. Probably because I’d like to become a better person and be really “ready” when I meet Him. I’m scarred He’d be angry at me because of my sins. But when I think of it, I am thinking like a Pharisee. God knows my past, my present and my tomorrow. He knows the bad things I did yesterday and the ups and downs of today, but He knows the work He’s been doing in me all along and the times I obeyed Him with faith. He knows my tomorrow and He knows if I’ll fall or will be seeking Him, so why would I try to look good on my dying day, my Creator knows me from the time He thought about creating the earth. It doesn’t mean I shouldn’t strive to seek Him and obey Him. But I shouldn’t feel like I need to “get ready”, “be more righteous” when He comes… because Christ is my only boast and His blood that covers me is the only atonement I’ve got for my sins, and it’s all God asks for.

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