Our reading is Genesis 27:1-2
It is the story of old Isaac asking a favor from his son.
“Now it came to pass when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, ‘My son,’ and he answered him, ‘Here I am.’ Then he said, ‘Behold now I am old, and I do not know the day of my death.'”
Isaac feels his life ebbing away and seeks a favor of his son. He used the line, “I do not know the day of my death,” and then asks his son for a favor. Interestingly, Isaac lived somewhere between 20 and 40 more years, before he died. Maybe Isaac would have done well to hear the old adage, “If you ain’t dead, you ain’t done.”
What is the point of remembering that story? Simply this: Wake up each day and remember that God has given you the gift of another day, rejoice and use it.
I close with the story of a teacher who lost her mother. On her first day back teaching, one little girl gave her wisdom beyond her years. She told the teacher, “I’m sorry about your mother,” and then added, “But I hope you live until you die.”
Maybe Isaac’s story will remind us all to live until we die.
I’m Lonnie Davis, and these are thoughts worth thinking.