"I wanna live like there's no tomorrow, love like I'm on borrowed time, It's good to be alive" Jason Gray
"Tonight, I want all of you tonight, give me everything tonight cuz we might not get tomorrow, let's do it tonight" Pitbull
Both of these songs talk about living your life like it's the last day you will be on earth. However, the underlying messages could not be more different. In Pitbull's song, the listener is encouraged to go out and do some crazy things, party hard, hook up with a stranger, just live like tomorrow is the end. Essentially, go out with a bang.
Whether that appeals to you or not, it is an utterly hopeless view on life. The end is here so let's just go hard and do whatever we want, because tomorrow it's all irrelevant. It kind of reminds of the "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die". It is the view that this life is all that there is. There is no hope for after death.
Mr. Gray on the other hand, views life a little more positively. He starts at the basics, just being thankful for life. He also acknowledges that life may end tomorrow, but he wants to do something more than just live in selfishly simple and temporary desires, he wants to make a change. The line that really hits me is "love like I'm on borrowed time". This life is not our own, but belongs to the Father, who created us, and then sent his Son to save us. So, in all honesty, we are on borrowed time.
It's like being at work. When you clock in at work, you are now on your boss' time, not on your own. While you are working, you are under the company's time, and as a representative of the company, you want to put your best foot forward and work your hardest. Well, we are clocked in under God's time from the moment we open our eyes at birth, to the moment He chooses to shut them.
In other words, we must be constantly working for the Lord. Colossians 3:23 says, " Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not human masters." I ask that we, especially as Christians, examine that verse more closely, and then look over our own lives and ask ourselves if this is really what we do. I would then ask, that we think about that and at the same time, consider that, as both of these songs pointed out, life could end at any moment.
Recently, I heard a fellow student speak about the temperamental state that our lives are in. People die before their time every day. And one of these days, it will affect someone close to each of our lives. As I thought over my past experiences with death, I can see this to be true and it suddenly hit me so hard that there are people close to me that do not believe. What am I doing, sitting here on my butt, when we are called to go make disciples of every nation, bringing new brothers and sisters into the kingdom. As I went into one of my rants and started spewing words about how I'm not doing enough to evangelize, a friend helped me realize that it is all in God's plan. This is true, all that we can do, is take advantage of every opportunity that we have to spread the gospel. Not that this is easy obviously, but it's all about being open and inviting others into our lives and just being vulnerable. It's not like you can walk up to a complete stranger and spill the whole gospel and expect them to convert right there on the spot, as cool as that would be. No, we are called to love, and love like we are on borrowed time.
Now my challenge here, would be to live fully in the place at which you are currently. Live in the moment, loving all around you and reaching out by being a friend. Sometimes that can make all of the difference. Seek out opportunities to do something epic for the kingdom of God.
As a senior, I see this as a huge opportunity. I recently got a job at a company called Epic, they do hospital software worldwide and just really cool things. Now, as exciting as that is, it is also incredibly nerve racking. I'm moving out on my own and will be with all new people. HELLO. Like what better opportunity could I ask for to be exactly what I have just been writing about. I can't wait to go out and meet new people and have new opportunities to be a witness, whether in word or deed or both. I hope that all of my seniors out there find the strength to go out to their new places and do something epic for God. Everyone else can as well. Let's all do epic things.
What a blessing life truly is. I decided that in order to write this, I needed to be out doors. So I lugged this ancient lazy boy chair that we have outside and placed it in our driveway. The sun, the wind, the occasional passing car and most of all just the peace of knowing that I have today to live, to breathe, to enjoy is enough for me.
Life is an adventure, the highs, the lows, and everything in between. Take it, make it awesome and all for God's glory.
