From The Pastor’s Pen – By Brian Horrobin
I came across a phrase recently that really caught my attention: “everyone is borrowed”.
I have never thought about that before.
According to blogger and former major league baseball coach, Clint Hurdle, we tend to treat people around us like they are permanent, like there will always be more time, more calls, more dinners, more “let’s catch up soon.”
Hurdle went on to cite three key truths about this subject.
First, no one in our life is ours to keep – everyone is borrowed.
Secondly, we never know when the borrowing ends.
That should grab out attention in our busy world, shouldn’t it?
Finally, one day becomes the last day, and we almost never realize it when it happens.
James, the brother of our Lord Jesus, had this to say in James 4:13-15: “Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.
What is your life?
You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Instead, you ought to say, ‘If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.’”
Personally, I find in my marriage that I am used to seeing my wife Ruth all the time and it is easy to think that I have all the time in the world to do stuff with her.
Reading this phrase reminded me to be more intentional about my relationship with her.
It also reminded me to be more intentional with the way I live my life in my service to God and to others.
I am praying for the Lord to remind me that ‘everyone is borrowed’ and to live life with that in mind.
Is that something you want for yourself, too?
