Living for the Day we DIE (PART 1)

The Way of the Samurai is found in death.  And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. This is the substance of the way of the samurai.  

From Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai

Imagine your death. 

Imagine the day you will die. 

(Because that day is coming.)

What do you want your last day to be like?

Now, imagine you’re dead.

You face your Maker, Creator, Owner.

He tells you to give an account of your life, of the breath in your nostrils, His breath, His life.

What will you say?

What purpose does each breath serve as you breathe it?

I want to be perfectly pleasing in the sight of God on the day of judgment, and to know that this is so in the present.   

How can I know this with absolute certainty?

It is our Creator’s obligation to reveal this to you and me.

So I ask Him.

He tells me.

I live for the purpose for which He made me, and I think, say, and do nothing unless it relates to that purpose.

As it is written,

“So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.”   

Romans 6:11 ESV

To be dead is to be unresponsive.

Sin is falling short of the goal of God:  His glory.

So I am unresponsive to all that does not glorify God, and responsive only to Him, through union with Him.

This is the substance of the way of God’s slaves.

Do you belong to Him?