When you interact with others, do you speak of Jesus as if you were dying? If you’re dead, no scorn can touch you, no persecutor’s torments hurt. No jail can keep the dead locked up. “We died before we came here!” declared Stephen Foreman[1].

Have you ever tried to life your life like you were dying? Paul tells us we should in Colossians 3:3-5: “For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.”

When it comes to using money, do you act as if you’re dead? The widow with her mites, truly just two coins, a single penny, gave to God like she was dying. She gave all she had to Him, her entire livelihood, not holding back, not hoarding or living selfishly, but simply trusting in the Lord (Mark 12:42-44). And the God who made the world with just a word, who doesn’t need a single bit of money, saw her act of sacrificial giving and called her blessed.

When it’s time to gather family round the Word of God today, will you live like you are dying?

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