18. The Best Plan
By
Roger Behra, B. S. Education *
* Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, New Mexico. He took five courses, 15 graduate hours, University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. 19 years experience teaching language arts in Arizona and Ohio, U.S.A. 10 years teaching religion in St. Ann Catholic School in Ohio, in addition.
Everyone makes plans for one reason or another. We plan for new items. We plan for vacations. We plan for the future. We hope that our plans become a reality. All the planning is worthwhile. But the one plan that we should have ready from minute to minute is not in our thinking for the most of us. And that is the plan for how we are going to spend our eternity.
Our eternity can start at any minute, hour, day, or week. As the Bible states, “you know not the hour or day the Lord will call you to judgment and your eternity.” So the best plan is to be ready every single moment of our life. And we do that by always living in their friendship of the Lord. And how do we do that?
For those not spiritually minded, we remain in the friendship of the Lord by avoiding SIN at all times, at all costs. We must also sincerely be repentant of all past sinfulness. We must pray daily and do penance, and thank God for all His graces and blessings. Jesus and His Blessed Mother Mary, should be our most important to please each day. They provide all the graces and blessings. Live by the 10 Commandments. Get in the habit of saying a very personal or formalized contrition prayer every morning and evening for daily and past sinfulness. And avoid sin at all costs.
Remaining in the friendship of the Lord is MOST IMPORTANT. IT IS NOT EASY. ONLYN GOD´S AND MARY´S HELPS, GRACES, AND BLESSINGS MAKE IT EASIER. If we are not in the friend ship of the Lord at the moment of death, the grace to be saved for all eternity will not be there. It will be missing. And of all the plans we have made, the most best plan we should have will also be missing.