An Expiry Date: What Have You Done in Your Life

• February 12, 2013
• Jesandy

People tend to forget our life in this world has “an expiry date”. No matter rich or poor, smart or not, high or low career, everything will finish at one final line. Like it or not, ready or not everyone has to be ready to meet their Creator.

Funny things not everybody love this idea, the fact that our age has a limit in terms of human are deserved being mortal. We are able doing a lot of things but not everything we might doing it, and one thing we are unable accomplished deciding how long we will live.

People who did not face this idea most of the acted like he will live forever. They didn’t think that God will ask all theirs responsibilities when they died. The think they unable to face the reality they will died and act out of control.

Have you ever think on our final journey, when God said “What have you done in your life?

What Have You Done With Your Life?

At the beginning, this question feels like something scary. At least that’s most people thought before knew Him.

Bottom point: Not everyone comfortable with this question.

Some people may remember the moment when this question really hit them. Not just reading it, but really feel it. And at that time, it feels like something scary. Like standing in front of something they are not ready.

Then they start to think about all the things they have done. Helping people, giving to others, trying to be a good person. And maybe they believe that is enough. That God will see it.

But deep inside, it still feels not really sure, empty or lead to another question “Is It Right and Enough?”

Because the focus still about what they have done.

And the truth is, no matter how many good things people do, it still feels empty when they imagine standing before God. Because human already and will always fall, always make mistake.

So if it is about what we do, then no one really ready.

It’s All About Grace

But then, We start to know Jesus, not only knowing, but really understand. That it is not about what they have done, but about what He already done.

That He already take all the sin. All the failure. All the things people try to hide. Not because they deserve it. But because of grace. Because of love.

We know the Two Debtor parable from Luke 7, When Jesus comparing a debtor who owed 500 denarii to one who owed 50. Both were forgiven, and the one with the larger debt showed more love.

Imagine You are the who one who have a big debt, have expiry date and cannot pay it. And then someone come and pay everything. And when we understand this, something inside you begin to change.

They don’t do good things because they have to anymore. But because they already receive something first. Because God already kind to them, then they start (automatically) to do the same to others. Not because of command, but because their heart already changed.

And because of that, this question “What have you done with your life?” begin to transform:

is not coming the same way like before, It is not something to be afraid of anymore. (Because the answer is not about what we try to achieve)

But there is another thing.. (The Questions Transform)

Even when people already understand this, sometimes they still try to walk by their own way. They make decisions by themselves. It may feel right at the beginning. But in the end, it becomes problem. Small or big, but it grows, like a snowball.

This is something people learn, again and again, slowly, the way they live also change.

Before doing something, before making decision, they start to ask first. I’m not talking about in prayer only, but in daily life. Live with Him, talking to Him, telling about their day, even small things.

We will start asking: “God, is this Your plan?”, “Are You with me in this?” or “Am I doing the right thing?”

Even when we asking about life or suitable future to God, about our family, health, asking our kids will grow well, sometimes it feels like… should we even ask? Because if we already surrender, if we really trust God, then He already know, He already take care. So why ask??

An Expiry Date We Cannot Avoid

In the end, nothing really change about this life.

Our life still has an expiry date.

No matter how we try to ignore it, delay it, or not think about it. The time will still come. The final line will still be there.

Some people live like that day will never come. Some people know it will come, but still not ready, and some already understand, but still learning how to live with it.

But one thing is clear: when that moment comes, the question is still the same.

“What have you done with your life?”

And maybe now, the answer is different. Not about how good we are, not about how much we have done.

But about whether we walk with Him.

Because at the end, when everything finish, when our time already reach the limit, what really matters is not just what we did in this life…

but who we walk with until the end.