You Only Die Once

There is this seemingly innocuous belief that You Only Live Once (YOLO), and yet the antithesis is the actual truth.  In all reality, You Only Die Once (YODO), and this was correctly framed by Brother Lawrence.

You see, we will live again after death, and that for eternity.  But there is only one death, and linked to that death is a most grave decision.  How like the enemy of our soul to twist the truth slightly, repackage and redistribute for our fleshly consumption so that instead of living with both the urgency, and the peace, of YODO, we are driven to a frenzy of fulfilling our fleshly desires under the false premise of YOLO. 

There is an equal urgency in YODO, but the purpose is divine; a celebration that this first life in this fallible body and this broken world is not, in fact, all for which we are alive, that there is a glorious eternity available in our very near future.  A consistent knowledge of this can correctly frame today’s decisions.  Don’t believe the twisted truth of YOLO.  Instead, my friends, function today under both the urgency and peace of the divine truth, You Only Die Once.

“But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.”  -- Hebrews 9:26b - 28