Take Care of Spiritual Issues Today  

Recently my sister and I spoke to an attorney about some legal matters regarding our aging parents. This is something we and our parents have discussed numerous times over the past few years as needing to be done, but it has been easy to just talk about it without actually taking action. Since there hadn’t been any urgent crisis to spur us to act immediately, we had been guilty of continuing to put off pursuing these matters until now.

  We tend to do the same thing when it comes to other areas of our lives, including spiritual issues. We may be aware that we have a need in our hearts that should be dealt with, but it is easy to ignore it as life plods on day after day. Before we know it, years have passed and nothing has changed. We keep thinking that we need to get serious about God, we ought to attend church, we should read our Bible and pray, or we should talk to someone about this hunger in our souls, but we fail to act on it. We think about it, maybe even mention it to someone, but keep referring to it as something we will do “sometime”. The only problem is that “sometime” never seems to be now.

I was reminded of this as I heard about the deaths of two young children in our area. One died suddenly from an undiagnosed physical problem. The other you may have heard about on the news who was struck and killed by a car as she was getting ready to board her school bus. It is a reminder to us that no matter our age, we don’t know when we could be facing our last moments of life on this earth. Interestingly enough, I understand that concerning the first child I mentioned that there was a discussion just the week before her death in her classroom at the Christian school she attended about that very subject. It was brought out that anyone could die in a sudden accident or some other such incident, and therefore it is important that we always make sure that our hearts are right with the Lord. Maybe God, who certainly knew the tragedy that was going to take place shortly, was preparing those students for what they were about to face.

Maybe this article is God’s means of preparing someone who is reading it for what they may have to deal with soon. If we have been procrastinating about dealing with our spiritual need, now is the time to start doing something about it. We need to quit neglecting this important issue. It could be too late for any of us at any time. We don’t know what tomorrow holds, or if we will even live to see another day. As these recent examples have reminded us, age is not a factor. Whether you are ninety years old like my father or just eight years old like the girl struck by the car, we could find ourselves leaving this world and standing before our Creator at any moment.

What is it that you have been telling yourself you need to do but have been putting off until some indefinite time in the future? Is there some issue with your relationship with God that you need to take care of today? The Bible also suggests that relationship issues with other people can affect our relationship with God. Maybe you need to take action to seek healing, restoration, or forgiveness in relation to some family member or friend. Don’t keep putting it off.

Time is passing. And one day we will be passing too. Let’s make sure our hearts are right with God and with others today.