We recently came across a blog site of a woman who died from
Stage IV terminal cancer last year. Her last post before she went to be with
Jesus in Heaven really meant a lot to me. Knowing that she was near the end,
she wrote: You may also pray for my
healing, but I have to be honest - I am more mentally and emotionally invested
in seeing Jesus right now than I am in being healed. If God chooses to heal me,
He'll give me the grace to wait a little longer to meet Him "whom having
not seen, [I] love.” (1 Peter 1:8). This was just an amazing perspective
for me. In everything she was writing those last days, it was all about seeing
Jesus. Although she knew Jesus could heal at any moment, she wasn’t wasting her
time so focused on that that she missed everything else. She was preparing to
meet Jesus and Jesus was preparing her for a new beginning. Isn’t that the
perspective we all should have, even without a terminal disease to motivate us
to have that perspective? This perspective of “seeing Jesus” also made me think
of a song from long ago that was titled, “Be Jesus to Someone Today.” I can’t remember the words, but the idea is
that for some people, I may be the only “Jesus” they see. What if we lived our
lives in such a way that people could experience just a little bit of Jesus so
that they would be ready to see all of Him when faced with an end of life
experience like this young woman? I am
so far from that. I want to have the perspective of preparing to meet Jesus
every day and while I am busy at that (and all of what life has) to be able to
show a little of Jesus to someone today.
Amazed by His Love,
Amazed by His Love,
Terence
