We modern Christians seem to be a strange breed in many of our ways. We are so completely satisfied with earthly things and we enjoy our creature comforts so much that we would just rather stay on here for a long, long time! Probably most of us do not tell God about that kind of desire when we pray. But for years, I have made a practice of writing many of my earnest prayers to God in a little book—a book now well worn. I remind God often of what my prayers have been. One prayer in the book—and God knows it well by this time—is an honest supplication: Oh, God, let me die rather than to go on day by day living wrong. I do not want to become a careless, fleshly old man. I want to be right so that I can die right! Lord, I do not want my life to be extended if it would mean that I should cease to live right and fail in my mission to glorify You all of my days! I would rather go home right now than to live on if living on was to be a waste of God’s time and my own!
Verse
Blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord . . . that they may rest from their labors. Revelation 14:13
Thought
I would rather go home right now than to live on if living on was to be a waste of God’s time and my own!
Prayer
Lord, my prayer is that You will keep me only for Your service, and that when I am no longer of service, You will take me home. I look forward to eternity praising You even as I praise You now.