Daily Butter(7/21): On Notice

My little addition to Our Daily Bread (7/21/11):

    in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

    For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible,

    and we will be changed.  (1 Corinthians 15:52 HCSB)

While Yancey focused in today’s ODB about the end of pain and death later in the passage, what stood out to me this morning is the immediacy it talks about. Do I really live my life with urgency showing I really believe that any moment God could tell the trumpeter to call His children home? So if I really believe it, does my daily routine show it? I know they eliminated the color-coded “terror alerts” that sprung up after 9/11, but if it could happen in a moment’s notice, aren’t we to be on alert? So much in this world is thought to be “urgent,” but what about the things of timeless importance?

Andy Jentes