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My father in law, Garland Hendren, told me once that he thought he was living on borrowed time. I asked him what made he think that. He told me that he had already lived longer than all the other men in his family. At the time I just overlooked his statement and thought he was just being a bit dramatic. During the same time period he started going to the doctor because he displaying symptoms of diabetes. I also didn't think this was to strange because he was a pleasantly plump. I thought a change of diet and some additional activity and all would be well, besides I had lived with my wife Joyce, a Type 1 diabetic, for many years and she had managed it well. In October of 2020 Garland was told he had a tumor on his pancreas. We later learned that it was a cancerous tumor. The tumor was removed along with several lymph nodes. The doctors told him they thought they had found and removed all the cancer but that it would be a good idea for him to get all his affairs in order. He took a few chemo treatments but the side effects of the treatments were causing heart failure so he stopped the treatments. In May of 2021, just a short 7 months later he passed away. It turns out my father in law was right, he was truly living on borrowed time. It is not unusual to hear people talk about living on borrowed time. It is a pretty common expression. What is meant by that is that somebody is alive that should be dead. Usually these people have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only a few months to live and for some reason have lived longer than the medical professionals have predicted they would, they are living on borrowed time.... We are all living on borrowed time because of the fact, we are all sinners and God is a just and righteous God! However, God is also compassionate and merciful. “To borrow” means to obtain or receive something on loan and to use it as your own with the intention of returning it to its rightful owner. Every day of our lives is on loan from God. We are all living on borrowed time. The lives we are living are not really ours to use as we please. God is lending them to us because He loves our souls, so you should feel an urgency to use your life to its fullest potential! God’s time is valuable, and He is being gracious to lend it to you. So it is important they we invest wisely and spend the days of our lives on things that will profit His Kingdom. Be careful not to spend excessive amounts of time with the pleasures and cares of this life.
Isaiah 38: 1-3 ESV In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.” Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, and said, “Please, O Lord, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
God did not disagree with Hezekiah, so He gave him borrowed time. Isaiah chapter 38 verses 4 and 5 say that God heard Hezekiah's pray.
Isaiah 38: 4-5 ESV Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Every minute of our lives is borrowed time, none of us are promised tomorrow. God has planned all the days of our lives. How have you spent your time? Has it been used on eternal matters, or on things of this earth which will perish? Some of your time may have already been wasted and not used wisely, if you have not been living right before God. I know I h
