The walk

God designed us to move.  We are made to make progress.  This process starts when our cells first split, then split again, and again, and again.  It continues when we take our first breath, make our first sound, and take our first step.  We were designed by God to move.

Journeys have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Adventures have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Movies have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Books have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Careers have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

In each of those, if it doesn't end well, what was the value in it?  If movies and books always had no real ending (good or bad), we'd just be left dangling wouldn't we?  To top it off, the books nor the movies wouldn't sell well, they wouldn't be successes.

Life itself has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

To remember that God designed us to move, leads us to think of our life as a journey...a walk, if you will.  We can easily anticipate the time of the ending for journeys, adventures, movies, and books, can't we?  Can any of us anticipate the time of the ending of our life's journey, our walk?  That's impossible isn't it? 

What's to learn from the above obvious example?  Just as we want to finish journeys well, adventures well, careers well,  we should strive to finish our lives well also, even in light of the fact that we don't know when that will be.  Just as God made us to move, He also made us to finish our walk well and He gave us the option of choice.  We can finish it well, or we can choose not to.  He provides us a reward for whichever choice we make.  I'd rather choose option A, where the reward is heaven.