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Blog Entry30 days to live, part 2 (of 3): My last 30 daysJan 26, '08 5:46 PM
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As I was thinking about this question, I thought about the 3 most important aspects of my life: family, church and business.

I thought, what would I do with Team Sparrow if I only have 30 days to live? Shall I train more programmers? Shall I check if sales are hitting targets and make sure that they will even after I die?

And then I thought about Grace Place, the "vehicle" that God used for me to release my passion to tell others about the unconditional love of Jesus. Shall I train more leaders? Shall I finish up the manuals and the leadership materials that are long overdue?

The more I keep thinking about these, and try to fit these things in my last 30 days, the more I realize that, in as much important as these are in my life right now, these will only overwhelm my schedule. Then I thought about my family.

I realized that if I only have 30 days to live, everthing boils down to how important my family is. The business will run without me, it can auto pilot. The growing ministry at Grace Place will run without me. In the first place, it is not MY church, it is GOD'S. God will place great leaders, better leaders to run his church when I'm gone.

My last 30 days will be spent with my wife, my son and my folks in the province. I'll spend every minute of my life bringing Joy and Johann to the best places that they want to be. I'll bring them to every mall in the city (FYI, malling is my family's past time), I will fix my eyes on whatever they do and fix my ears on whatever they say. I'll spend some of the remaining days with my dad and mom and siblings. I'll tell them how they have greatly impacted my life, how they have become an inspiration and a driving factor in my pursuit of excellence.

What's yours?

sherxfied wrote on Jan 26
if someone told me, a doctor or anybody from a medical background, that i only have 30 days to live, then i'd tell them, who are you to play God? God can take me anytime, any day, any hour, any minute, any second now. no one controls his own life, no one can tell me how many days i have left. cuz no one knows the future except God. this day might as well be my last! actually to me, everyday is my last day on earth, cuz i don't know when God will take me. ok so tell me i only have thirty days, then the next day, i suddenly died, where will that leave you? you'll say, but this guy has 30 more days according to our calculation, what happened? we were wrong!? no. you're not wrong, you're only human. God gave us only this day. and it is up to us how we're going to use this day in preparing to meet our Maker. i'm not saying it's wrong to think up things to do if you have only 30 days left, but why bother on plans and writing what-to-do lists, we have this very day to work, to "occupy til the Lord comes" dying basically means that God put an end to your preparation, time's up, papers in, no more writing, put down your pens. i pray and hope that i am right with God in my faith in Him. Satan gives us bad thoughts on unforgiven sins, unrepented basal actions, sins we have done in the past, just to make us feel guilty, but God promised, He will forgive us if we repent and really repent sincerely. every new day brings us hope to make right with God and everyday He bestows the blessings we need just to get through. we have our daily bread, so when we do go and leave our earthly possessions behind,we are sure we have fought the good fight.
God willing, i can share the good news to as many as i can and be God's instrument as long as He permits me and gives me one more day...aren't you glad you're still alive?
choose ye THIS DAY...who will you serve today?
arnoldgamboa wrote on Jan 27
Hi Kuya Sherx. Thanks for the message.

Actually, the purpose of the theme "30 days to live" is not to play God and determine who dies when. The main idea is stir one's realization of how short life is. It may not be you, but most people here in the city, especially the young urban professionals, treat life as if they have a hold of it. Giving a hypothetical question such as this will make one think about the real essence of life and focus on what is important.
sherxfied wrote on Jan 29
okay, i understand. this is truly a good way of reaching out to people and not frightening them with theological or religious approaches. i on the other hand just wanted to share my view on the topic, i felt the one i posted on the 30daystolive site was too short. hehe. i also posted the link on my friendster blog. regards and God bless!
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