FIX IT!

     Last weekend Dwayne and I held our yearly marriage retreat. We always leave saying this was the best one ever but this year really was something special. We brought in people and couples to share their marriage testimonies. Testimonies are so powerful because they put a real life story behind principles. It saddens me that so few are willing to give testimonies, especially when it involves mistakes they have made because those are the most life changing for people.
     One of the people who shared at the retreat was a woman who had experienced some marital struggles with her husband. They both really wanted to fix things but they got into the rut of waiting for the other one to do something. They finally started addressing their issues and their marriage strengthened. However, soon afterwards her husband was killed in a car wreck while he was running an errand as she prepared dinner. The message to her testimony that resonated for me was “FIX IT” while you have time! She so wishes she could go back in time and get back the time they wasted not fixing it!
     These words of wisdom can be applied to more than just our marriage: it can be applied to our spiritual life. We all know things we need to improve in our relationship with Jesus. The problem is we put it off and off and off. Things do not change this way. We tend to think we have time. However, the clock keeps ticking and ticking and ticking and we do not know when the alarm is going off! We do not know when we will see Jesus face to face. We will be accountable for what we do and what we do not do.
     Don’t waste anymore time. Fix whatever you know you need to while you still have time. You do not want to stand before Jesus and say, “I was going to do that soon, I meant to do it, I just got so busy and distracted!” May we live with the motto, Just Fix It!

Since everything here today might well be gone tomorrow, do you see how essential it is to live a holy life?

2Peter 3:11