What a difference a day makes at NC State!

So often we live each day the same. We assume that what we have planned or what we expect to happen will come to fruition. Days tend to blend together and become somewhat indistinguishable from each other as time marches on.  

I sadly remember the news story some years back about two young men enjoying an NC State tailgate party. Unfortunately, an altercation was started and both of these young men were killed. They had not planned on that. The very thought that they would die that day had never entered into their thoughts or plans.

What is the difference from one day to another? According to God, we should not take any day for granted. 

Hebrews 9:27  And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

The time for this to occur can happen at any time.

People die every minute of every day. The cemetery is full of people who had other plans for the day they died. No one knows their individual appointed time.

Since judgment comes right after death, everyone should take some very careful and prayerful time to reconsider what will happen to them when they die.

James 4:13-14  Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

We should never take any day for granted but, we do.

1 Peter 1:24-25  For, "ALL FLESH IS LIKE GRASS, AND ALL ITS GLORY LIKE THE FLOWER OF GRASS. THE GRASS WITHERS, AND THE FLOWER FALLS OFF, 
BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER." And this is the word which was preached to you.

How have you prepared for that day?

Have you made any plans for that day?