Like a thief in the night

I can't get myself to sleep after I received the news that someone I barely knew passed away.

3 days...thats all it took for her to be in a meeting, one time, and passing on, the next.

It made me think deeply, seriously about my own mortality and how I have lived my life, supposedly, for the glorification of the Lord.

I have had a lot of struggles during the past years that, most of the time, I let my human nature take over my life knowing pretty well that it's not supposed to be the case. I have learned from my study of the bible during the past nine years that I should deny myself, take up my cross and follow him.

It is easier to do otherwise.

Until the news of this death came like the sound of a chime that signals the coming of the wind from somewhere...anywhere...nowhere that we know of.

Like a thief in the night, death comes.

I should be prepared for that eventuality.

Lord, teach me how to follow your ways and to give up and deny my nature as a human being. I love you Lord...I want to spend eternity with you and my loved ones.

To Him be the glory!