When I Take My Last Breath

When I take my last breath …….

……..will I fully know it at that moment? I have breathed in and out this body millions of times in my life. What is one more ….. just one more breath? I think it will be the most important breath I will ever take in and give out.

When that last wisp of air leaves my body, I will embark on an eternal journey - one that is beyond the strengths and weaknesses of my body and even my imagination. However, as I see it …. it is a continuation of the journey that started at my conception.

I had no part in my creation - no force of my own was possible to propel me into existence; as that came from God in the infinite wisdom of His plan of creation.

After life was breathed into me by the Holy Spirit and I grew into the age of reason, then by the gift of free will from my Creator, I got to hold the reins on my journey.

I held those reins well at times, and much too often, not well at all. In truth, the best of me was when I asked God to hold the reins, and I faithfully followed His will. The worst of me was always when I wanted to hold the reins.

In that last breath will I see the entirety of my life in a flash? How many regrets will I have - perhaps only the ones in which I could never seem to put behind me? Will the sorrow of my regrets weigh me down in that moment? Or will I refuse to look back and only look forward?

I choose to gladly embrace the hope in my soul where I hold tightly onto the promises of Jesus of Nazareth.

He said that if I live in Him and believe in Him as the Son of the Living God that I will never die.

He is the way, the truth and the life, and I take Him at His Word because He is trustworthy.

He is the I Am.

Solely by Jesus’ redemptive grace and mercy, I truly believe, after my body dies, the very next breath will be of my soul joyfully breathing in the purity, holiness and glory of God forever and ever.