- Mark 5:23 (NKJV) …and begged Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter lies at the point of death. Come and lay Your hands on her, that she may be healed, and she will live.”
“Through boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.” _Bion, c.325-255 B.C.
What if you lived this day “in earnest”?
You have so much information thrown at you. One minute you hear about a horrific tragedy in some part of the world and the next minute you’re chuckling over some funny little story that you just read and then the current debate in Washington shows up (which you immediately tune out) and then it’s last night’s scores and the latest weather update and then there’s the big traffic pile-up up north and the tragic fire out west and the unexpected snow over there and the missing child down there and the great deal at the shop down the street and on and on it goes.
The sad effect of all this information is that you can live your life somewhere between causal interest and bored indulgence.
However, that’s not the case for the real people behind the stories. The pain, pathos, and suffering that you hear about each day happens to real people. That person that America is laughing at today has feelings. The missing child is terrified and may not be alive this time tomorrow. The debate in Washington is going to affect your children’s children’s children. That shop owner that down the street is fighting to survive and may not make payroll this weekend and those crazy drivers you’re have to deal with today are “crazy” because their lives are stressed to the max and they’re just about to the breaking point.
Live your life in earnest today. Take time to listen, to care, to pray and to reach out with a hand of mercy. You could be the lifeline that saves a soul from finally giving up.
Take the time to take people serious, many of them are dying in earnest.
The ONE THING 