What if there is no tomorrow...there wasn't one today.

I found this text on my hard drive from my old blog before I destroyed it in a fit of self importance. Thought I would post it here.

I was at a Christian Education seminar where Dr. Tony Evans was the keynote speaker. He said that everyday we wake up in the same old bed, go to the same old job in the same old car and work for the same old boss. We do the same old stuff, come home to the same old so and so in the same old house and eat the same old dinner etc…He was talking about how we fail to take advantage of opportunity to serve God and man.
Groundhog Day was on again a few nights ago. This movie intrigues me because I look at it as a direct parallel to my spiritual life. I was discussing the movie with a coworker the next day. He said that he thought that it would be cool to be able to live the same day over and over again until you got it right. The two thoughts (Tony Evans speech and Groundhog Day) came together when my coworker made this comment. I said to him, “Isn’t that what we are doing?”

“I’ve killed myself so many times that I don’t even exist anymore.” Phil Connors says shortly after he tries repeatedly to commit suicide out of frustration with the continuous 24 hour loop that was his existence, he realizes that living for himself is futile and he finds the joy of living for someone else.
There are few calls in Christianity that are as intimidating as this:

Matthew 16:24-26
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?”


When will I become so bored with my 24 hour loop that I am no longer anxious to save this temporal earthly life, or this comfort and security? He that is willing to risk or lose his comfort and life here for my sake, shall find life everlasting and shall be saved. If you want to keep your life just the way it is, you will lose your life forever.