I want to start this off by saying, YES, I do know that the title of this is a Garth Brooks song. I just happened to play it tonight on my way home from life group and it has really convicted and inspired me. I am writing this to share my heart with you, and I hope that this will also open your eyes to live your life differently. If you haven’t heard it listen to it before you finish reading this and see if you get inspired and or convicted by it. Try to think in a spiritual way, not a romantic way.
I listen to it and I think about James Eunice so much. If you don’t know who he is, he was 17 year old high school student who drowned on January 15, 2011. He and I were not really close but we were close enough. There is not a time I saw him that I didn’t get or give a HUGE man hug. Well on January 15th, tomorrow for him never came. He had a very short 17 years to love God, and love people as much as he could. I can honestly say, that is something he did very well! His life has made the biggest impact on this city I have EVER seen before. I am not writing this about him, but he is such an amazing example of what I am about to talk about.
Think about the title for a minute, If Tomorrow Never Comes. Then think about that being true for you right this second. What if tomorrow never comes for you? What would you change in your life if you knew tonight was your last? What if you read this, and tomorrow night is your last night? Will you allow this to transform your life if only for one day? What if that one day of change made an entire city change? What if you have a year left, and that year changes thousands of lives? What are you waiting for?
As I sat in my Jeep on my way home tonight these are all questions God threw at me. What if tomorrow never comes, will I be with him? Will people look at my life and see Jesus with a different face? Will my actions in my life change even one person? As I lay in that little box in the front of a church, will people have a chance to look at me and say, I wish he knew God? As they look in that box at my lifeless body, will they say to themselves, that guy was messed up? Or will they see an empty vessel that once carried the power of a living and eternal God? Will they say that Josh Hewett lived his life as an example, the same example Jesus did?
Those are a lot of questions. I urge you to read them and don’t take them lightly. Read them all again. Take time and let them sink in. Do you see any of those being said for you when your tomorrow doesn’t come? If so, are they good or are they bad? If they are bad, and you want to find out how to have the better ones, the answer is Jesus Christ. He lived and died and rose again, FOR YOU. If you have any questions about this Jesus, please message me and I will do my best to let you meet my Jesus.
Another song I listened to that made me think was The Dance, also by Garth Brooks. It is a song about life aka the dance. Life is a gift given to us by God, and how we dance that dance is our choice. I have danced my dance my way A LOT, but God’s way A LOT more recently. If you are dancing a bad dance, God is the best choreographer. In this song he says “I could have missed the pain, but I’d of had to miss the dance” In other words, he could have skipped the hard times, but if he did, he wouldn’t have lived his life. We can put ourselves in a closet and have people bring us food so we can live. But what kind of life is that? Wouldn’t you prefer having pain, because through the pain comes a stronger better you. You will learn to find Joy in your pain like the book of James.
[2] Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, [3] for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. [4] And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1:2-4 ESV)
How do you count it all joy? In the moment you may not find it joyful, but the outcome and the lessons you learn because of them, you will find joy. In future trials and pain, you will learn from your old ones that joy comes in the morning.
This is about all I got for now. I hope this will IMPACT your life in a HUGE WAY! If you need to talk, you know how to find me! Thank you so much for reading.
Josh
I listen to it and I think about James Eunice so much. If you don’t know who he is, he was 17 year old high school student who drowned on January 15, 2011. He and I were not really close but we were close enough. There is not a time I saw him that I didn’t get or give a HUGE man hug. Well on January 15th, tomorrow for him never came. He had a very short 17 years to love God, and love people as much as he could. I can honestly say, that is something he did very well! His life has made the biggest impact on this city I have EVER seen before. I am not writing this about him, but he is such an amazing example of what I am about to talk about.
Think about the title for a minute, If Tomorrow Never Comes. Then think about that being true for you right this second. What if tomorrow never comes for you? What would you change in your life if you knew tonight was your last? What if you read this, and tomorrow night is your last night? Will you allow this to transform your life if only for one day? What if that one day of change made an entire city change? What if you have a year left, and that year changes thousands of lives? What are you waiting for?
As I sat in my Jeep on my way home tonight these are all questions God threw at me. What if tomorrow never comes, will I be with him? Will people look at my life and see Jesus with a different face? Will my actions in my life change even one person? As I lay in that little box in the front of a church, will people have a chance to look at me and say, I wish he knew God? As they look in that box at my lifeless body, will they say to themselves, that guy was messed up? Or will they see an empty vessel that once carried the power of a living and eternal God? Will they say that Josh Hewett lived his life as an example, the same example Jesus did?
Those are a lot of questions. I urge you to read them and don’t take them lightly. Read them all again. Take time and let them sink in. Do you see any of those being said for you when your tomorrow doesn’t come? If so, are they good or are they bad? If they are bad, and you want to find out how to have the better ones, the answer is Jesus Christ. He lived and died and rose again, FOR YOU. If you have any questions about this Jesus, please message me and I will do my best to let you meet my Jesus.
Another song I listened to that made me think was The Dance, also by Garth Brooks. It is a song about life aka the dance. Life is a gift given to us by God, and how we dance that dance is our choice. I have danced my dance my way A LOT, but God’s way A LOT more recently. If you are dancing a bad dance, God is the best choreographer. In this song he says “I could have missed the pain, but I’d of had to miss the dance” In other words, he could have skipped the hard times, but if he did, he wouldn’t have lived his life. We can put ourselves in a closet and have people bring us food so we can live. But what kind of life is that? Wouldn’t you prefer having pain, because through the pain comes a stronger better you. You will learn to find Joy in your pain like the book of James.
[2] Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, [3] for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. [4] And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1:2-4 ESV)
How do you count it all joy? In the moment you may not find it joyful, but the outcome and the lessons you learn because of them, you will find joy. In future trials and pain, you will learn from your old ones that joy comes in the morning.
This is about all I got for now. I hope this will IMPACT your life in a HUGE WAY! If you need to talk, you know how to find me! Thank you so much for reading.
Josh
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