Editorial

My Life Today. No doubt many of us have in our home libraries this wonderful little devotional book. Recently, the title of this book really caught my attention and triggered a train of thought—what is my life today? What kind of life do I live TODAY? We are all busy, very busy, or extremely busy. We seem to have no time.

I, for one, have found myself very busy indeed, doing good, important things. But what about “my life today”?—my personal life? I ask myself how much time do I spend in personal devotion, in personal study, secret prayer and meditation? Do I study to personally feed my soul with spiritual food, or do I study to “prove” the truth? How much time do I spend with my Lord? How many hours every day do I “walk” with the Lord? Am I being “too busy” for my life today? How is it with you? Do you have time for secret prayer? Do you put aside time to attend prayer meeting? Do you strive to be on time for Sabbath school? Or are you too busy? Are we too tired to listen to the Divine Service or have fellowship with our brethren, families and friends, to visit our neighbors and tell someone about Jesus? Where do we spend our time? It would do us good to start thinking about our life today, for tomorrow could be too late.

We all have to work for our daily existence; this is true. But most of the time we work only eight hours a day in the factory or business. How do we spend the rest of the time? We all know the wonderful hymn, “Take Time to Be Holy.” Do we have time for personal holiness? Do we have time to walk and talk with our Lord, to tell Him our joys and sorrows, our battles with temptation, our failures and our victories? Do we have time to contemplate eternity?

I leave you with these thoughts from the pen of inspiration. “What preparation are you making for the better life? It is Satan who makes you think that all your powers must be exercised to get along in this world. You are fearing and trembling for the future of this life, while you are neglecting the future, eternal life. Where is the anxiety, the earnestness, the zeal, lest you make a failure there and sustain an immense loss? To lose a little of this world seems to you a terrible calamity which would cost your life. But the thought of losing heaven does not cause half the fears to be manifested. Through your careful efforts to save this life, you are in danger of losing eternal life. You cannot afford to lose heaven, lose eternal life, lose the eternal weight of glory. You cannot afford to lose all these riches, this exceedingly precious, immeasurable happiness. Why do you not act like a sane man, and be as earnest, as zealous, and as persevering in your efforts for the better life, the immortal crown, the eternal, imperishable treasure, as you are for this poor, miserable life and these poor perishable, earthly treasures?” —Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 698.

Will you have time to read this article?

Your too busy brother and friend,

Brian Jaksic