In starting a new journey, one might look ahead as though today is "the first day of the rest of your life." This writer says we shouldn't do that. Instead, we should live each day as if it were our last. How different are the first day and the last day of a journey! The first day is spent making plans of where to go and how to get there, packing bags of items needed along the way, and anticipating the fun that lies ahead. The last days are ones for reflection and completion: realizing what is most important and doing that.
I want to spend my last day with my family, the people I love more than anything on this earth. I want to feel that I have done my best, that I have used what God gave me, that I focused on the important things that were made to last forever instead of building on to my house, putting in new floors, canning tomatoes, reaching my Avon sales goal, needing to lose ten pounds.
The question to consider at the end of the devotion today is this: "Since I was made to last forever, what is the one thing I should stop doing and the one thing I should start doing today?" In my Avon business, we are told to talk to at least 3 new people each day about buying or selling Avon. What if I used that Power of Three to talk about Jesus instead of makeup?
