Today, my husband was looking at headlines on the Internet and he saw there was a tsunami warning because of a volcano eruption in the middle of the Pacific ocean. He told me with everything else going on in the world, it seemed like the end of the world was coming. He was laughing so I knew he wasn’t serious, but I started to think about it.
When I read the Gospels closely, it seems like Jesus was telling them that the end of the world was going to come in their life time. Over the last two thousand years, there have been several people and groups believing that all the signs were set into place showing that the Rapture was coming. There have been countless books and movies about it. Before I met my husband, I even dated a guy who thought the end of the world was coming in just a few years and that we all had to be prepared for it.
The problem is literally for each of us the end of the world comes when you die. And as the Bible says, it will come like a thief in the night. No one can prepare for it. Only God knows the date and time of my death and he isn’t going to share that information with me. He might give me signs about being on the right path, but when, where, and how I am going to die isn’t really important. My life is about this journey; it isn’t about how it ends.
Maybe that’s one of the downfalls of humankind. From the very beginning, humans have been obsessed with death. What happens when we die? What does our life mean if we die at the end? What can we do to live longer? What can we do to be younger, in control, and more powerful so that death can’t loom over us? Death is just the end of this amazing beautiful journey. It is a period at the end of the last sentence of a novel. It’s important, but it doesn’t negate the journey. The fact that the journey ends doesn’t make the journey worthless. Just because a story ends doesn’t mean that the story isn’t worth telling.
My life and my journey are my focus, I leave the rest up to God. I trust Him to get me through to the end and beyond.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
