“It’s made it very hard on my bucket list.”

That was said by a young man who was given a very short time to live. He is dying of cancer – but he is laughing in the face of death. His story is called “Laughing in the face of cancer”  in the newspaper.

All of us have a list of things we want to do before we die. This young man called the list his bucket list. There were so many things he wanted to do before he “kicked the bucket”.

He lived longer than expected and he has done things.

Maybe he has even done the overnight fishing trip with his friend to Tutukaka he was looking forward to so much by now. It was one thing on his ultimate to-do list.

But things are up with him. And things are down with him. What comes next? He does not know. The paper says, “But for now he is laughing”.

We must have the things of God on our to-do list. We must have the commandments of God on our to-do list. We are reading about the commandments of God in the Bible, the Word of the Living God. Here is one:  Acts 17:30 says:  “In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.” Read also Second Peter 3:9

When we repent, we know what comes next!

*Is the bucket list coming from Ecclesiastes 12:6, where it is written “…; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,…” ?