Our Life’s Bottom Line, By Roger Behra

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Our Life’s Bottom Line

By

Roger Behra

Each day in our modern world, such as it is, so many people die tragically and unexpectedly without being prepared for life’s bottom line. They have lived irreligiously and made up their own rules for daily life. They gave little or no thought about why they are here and where they must go after their life ends here on earth. They failed to realize that the bottom line in everyone’s life is their eternity and who they are going to spend it: either happily or unhappily. They failed to realize they would be responsible for every thought, word, and deed committed during their lifetime here on earth.

With all of this in mind, let us be reminded about the best way to live and to always be prepared to die in the Lord’s friendship whenever He calls us. Pete Carroll, head coach of the USC football team, constantly reminds us “always be prepared.”

To always be prepared starts with knowing why we are here on earth. We are here to know God, our creator, to love God, to serve Him as a good Christians, and to be happy with Him in heaven for all eternity, which is the bottom line referred to here. Yes, there is an eternity. It lasts forever, and it is either a happy one or not happy one. And we make it so here on earth by the way we live.

Knowing God means He is the Supreme Being that created us and loves us unconditionally and wants us to be blissfully happy with Him in an unbelievable all loving eternity.

Loving God means to live our lives in such a way that we constantly strive to please God through good thoughts, good words, and good actions. That automatically includes loving our neighbor as we love ourselves.

Serving God means to know and keep the 10 Commandments, through daily prayer, and being charitable and helpful to others.
When we do these three (knowing, loving serving God) along with being sorry for sins, we are being prepared.

To gain God’s help we should being each day with a prayer asking for His help. We cannot do it by ourselves. WE NEED GOD”S HELP. Then we should thank God for another day of life to love and serve Him. Then at retiring time (bedtime) be sorry for any sins committed that day and thank God for all graces received. If you do this without fail each day, you will always be prepared, and your bottom line will be an eternally happy one no matter when your life comes to an end. You will end up nowhere near the dark eternal place that is reserved for all those who die unprepared. 23 Minutes in Hell, by Bill Wise, tells a real story. 90 Minutes in Heaven, by Don Piper, tells another.

R.B.
11-27-09