You may not have a job that follows a Monday-through-Friday schedule, but chances are you don’t work all seven days per week. At some point, you have a ‘weekend.’ A day or two off from your labor for money.
Do you ever spend any of that time thinking about death? You should.
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.
-Ecclesiastes 7:2
You won’t be the most popular guy at the restaurant by quoting that verse. Bringing up morbid thoughts of your own mortality might ensure that you never get invited out again, but it’s worth some time to step back mentally and spiritually and ask yourself if you are living each week for a productive purpose.
A job is a job, and the Bible is replete with heroes who worked long seasons of uneventful tasks to provide for their families. The Lord allows for many weeks/months/years of common, ordinary, every-day labor. It shouldn’t be purposeless, though.
Did you engage in anything this week that truly challenged you?
Did you spend any time wondering if you are within God’s will?
Do you ever spend time trying to figure out His will?
This email is going out on a Friday. If you happen to get it on the day it is sent, and you have a weekend ahead of you, consider spending some of that time in deep thought about what you did this week that had eternal value. Then, maybe spend some time thinking about next week.
If you knew you were dying next Friday, would it adjust your week’s planning? Certainly it would. You’d try to go skydiving, or Rocky Mountain climbing, or 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu.1
Knowing for certain you are about to die leads to dramatic changes. No need for that here. But consider the possibility that you might die next Friday. How might that sharpen your ordinary days ahead?
Are there any upcoming opportunities to advance the Kingdom, even small ones? You never know how big a small opportunity might become.
Praise and Arrows.
Country music has pretty simple life lessons. This one comes from Tim McGraw.