Daily devotion – preparedness
James 4: 13 Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” 14 How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. 15 What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”
The missing Titan
“The five people aboard a missing submersible died in what appears to have been a “catastrophic implosion,” a US coast guard official says, bringing a grim end to the massive international search for the vessel lost during a voyage to the Titanic.
A robotic diving vehicle deployed from a Canadian ship discovered a debris field from the submersible Titan on Thursday morning on the seabed some 488 metres from the bow of the Titanic, more than four kilometres beneath the surface, in a remote corner of the North Atlantic, US coast guard Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters.” – West Australian Newspaper 23rd June 2023.
The sad news of the missing vessel the “Titan” has revealed no survivors of what was supposed to be the ultimate tourist excursion. Instead, tragedy occurred, and all have been lost at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean some 4 kms below the surface.
There will be a great deal of investigation now into what caused this tragic loss of lives in a $250,000 U.S. per passenger venture.
But the outcome of this post-mortem of events will change nothing in regard to the lives of those on board.
What this reminds us as believers is that life is precious and frail in this fallen world.
The psalmist tells us that we have only a short time here now – Psalm 90:10 The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
We are reminded over and over in the Bible that there is so much more to life than this world in which we live at this moment in time.
The sad deaths of those on board the “Titan” remind each of us once again to have our affairs in order. What does that mean?
It means to have a right relationship with God. To know that once we leave this world we enter into His presence having lived our lives to glorify His name.
There was one king that God gave a warning of his soon impending death – 2Ki 20:1 ¶In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.’ ”
Each one of us needs to be ready, to have set our house in order, for we know not when our Lord will call us home to be with Him.
Let us pray for the families of all those who perished on the “Titan” that they will turn to the God of comfort at this time of grief and sorrow. That they will look to Him who has the power of giving us eternal life!