if tomorrow never comes

I’m guilty of sometimes getting caught up in the tomorrow’s of life…in the what if’s and what I need to do’s….

I think and worry about how my kids will turn out, how our finances will be, where we will live and where I will work.

I pray for the future, I pray God will protect us, and I ask for guidance.

And recently in these times of prayer I have noticed God prompting me towards the thought, “But what if tomorrow doesn’t come?”

The more the thought comes to me, the more I spend time in deep consideration over it.

We hear it all the time, “Live as though today were your last.”
People have bucket lists, take chances, and think this means they should live freely because tomorrow isn’t promised.

But I’ve begun thinking a little deeper than just what activities I’d want to do if my tomorrow didn’t come….and instead started wondering how and where I’d want to be on my last day?

How would I want to have been acting? Treating people?  How would I want to have spent my time?

If I knew my days were limited….

I can tell you, I wouldn’t jump on a plane to somewhere tropical.
I wouldn’t go eat chocolate cake and pizza just because I could.
I wouldn’t jump out of planes or rush to get tattoos….

I would instead desire to make every last moment count.
I would love my kids and husband in a way that they would always remember.
I would spend hours on my knees worshiping the Lord and praying for those I love.

I’d no longer put off calling and telling the ones I love what they mean to me.  I’d instead make the time and effort to make sure they knew.
I’d laugh easier.
I’d forgive immediately.
That fight wouldn’t be so important after all.
I’d see beauty where before I’d seen hopelessness.
I would hug tighter.
I would love without hesitation.
I would make the most of my days instead of wasting them.

In essence, I would live each day the way Jesus intends us to live all our days.
For Him.

Loving and serving and remembering that right now, it’s not about us.
It’s not about tomorrow.

It’s about right now, this moment in time you have been given.

If you knew it was your last moment, your last day, your last week or month….how would you live differently?

Would that fight matter?
Would your grudge seem silly?
Would your patience last longer?
Would you spend money differently?

I pray that we’d all be able to stop and think….what if this was it?

And then live and LOVE as though it was.