You’re As Alive Today As Anybody!

God spoke to me in one of my most desperate moments. Everyone, including the best doctors in SoCal, was pretty sure I wouldn’t make it. My skin would not stay on my body, my kidneys had failed, and now my liver. Thousands of dollars of cutting edge drugs were pumping through a PICC line directly into my heart.

I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t stay awake, couldn’t eat, and all bodily functions had stopped.

When I was aware of the world around me, all I could do was cry.

“So this is it,” I remember saying to the Lord at 2:00 in the morning from my lonely hospital room. “So this is how I’m going to leave this earth, hooked up to beeping machines and incapable of even praying much.”

And then the Lord said, “Ed, you’re as alive today as anybody!”

It was a critical moment, a tipping point in my life. That’s all He said, but His Spirit continued to bring thoughts of hope to my mind.

“That’s right, and as long as I’m here, I might as well serve Jesus with all my heart. Tomorrow someone who’s perfectly healthy is going to die in an accident, someone else is going to drop dead from a heart attack. All over this city people will wake up in the morning not knowing that this is their last day. And who knows, I may even be here tomorrow, and the next, and the next…”

That was almost ten years ago. Yesterday I turned sixty.

The next day turned into the next week, the next month, and the next year. And I’m still as alive today as anyone.

I can’t know what fears or struggles may be causing you to lose hope in tomorrow, but I do know this: Jesus promised to take care of tomorrow, all the assignments that are your responsibility are for today.

So serve Him with all your might!

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Jesus Christ, Matthew 6:34