Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to Die.

I remember a joke about a preacher when preaching one Sunday would pause in his message and say to the congregation. “How many of you want to go to Heaven”.  Everybody  raised their hands, all except one guy sitting down front.  The Preacher repeated the same question several times during the sermon with the same results.  All raised their hands except this one guy down front.  Finally the Preacher had to stop and ask the man, ” Sir, don’t you want to go to heaven”  The man looking at the Preacher replied,  ” Oh yes, I want to go to Heaven,  I just thought you where getting a Bus load to go right now”

I suppose that is how most people who believe in GOD think.  My Grandmother thought that way.  When she reached the biblical age of three score and ten, she declared, “I’m ready to go, but just don’t push me”  This brings us to why in Sam’s hill would anybody call their Blog  ”Dirt Nap On Hold”.  But I believe this is precisely the case.  Life is at best Terminal. Yes, news flash, we all are going to die. But it is GOD that has numbered our days. And until that last breath on that last day our “Dirt Nap is on Hold”.  Because we don’t control the length of our life, the time we do spend here should be more than a life of self serving indulgence.  My life is best spent by having a spiritual impact. An impact on those around me, and with those who hear about me though others.

All of us do impact others either positively or negatively. John Donne in his meditation said this: “All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated…As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness….No man is an island, entire of itself…any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

Perhaps carpenter from Galilee said it best when instructing his disciples told them   “Ye are the Salt of the earth”.  There are no accidental Christians. So why it is important for me to work in my “Garden of Good and Evil”?  Remember those weeds I told you I planted long ago. They are killers for any testimony I may wish to have for those whom GOD brings into my life while my “Dirt Nap is on Hold”.

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