Inspirational Thought for Today…

Jess Moody was a young pastor in Owensborough, Kentucky, when he became good friends with a young couple in his church.  One day the husband came to Pastor Moody’s office clearly distraught and said, “Jess, I’ve just heard the most awful news.  My wife has terminal cancer, and it has spread all over her body.  The doctors have just told us she has only weeks, not even months, and, Jess, she’s at the hospital, and she’s asking for you.  We don’t know how to handle it.  We don’t know what to do.

Jess immediately went to the hospital.  There the young wife and mother said to him, “I remember in one of your sermons you said a thousand years is like a day to God and a day is unto a thousand years.  Is that true?  Is a thousand years like a day to God?”  The pastor said, “Yes, it’s in the Bible”  She said, “Good, because I’ve been doing the math, and I figure if a thousand years is like a day, then forty years is like one hour.  I’ll be leaving my husband and the children soon.  He may live another forty years, but that will be just like an hour in heaven.  When he gets to heaven, I’ll greet him and say, ‘Where have you been for an hour?  Did you just go to the office, or were you running errands?  I’ve missed you.’  My children may live another seventy or eighty years, but that will be like two hours to me.  When they get to heaven, I’ll greet them and say, ‘How was school today?  Mom misses you when you’re gone for a couple of hours.  I wonder how you are doing, because mommies don’t like to be away from their children long’.”

Jess Moody said two weeks later she went to be with the Lord, and the last thing she said to her husband was “I love you.  Take care of my children. I’ll see you in an hour.”  Now that’s an eternal perspective.  That’s the real perspective that can motivate each of us to live the one-month-to live lifestyle for years to come.

Taken from the book by:  Kerry and Chris Shook, One Month to  Live, pp. 219, 220