Dawn Treader

I just finished re-reading CS Lewis novel, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  I was moved when Prince Caspian was faced with the decision to go to the other side to be with his father or to stay behind and continue with his mission.  This presents a very moving question.  Paul writes in Philippians 1:21. “For to me, living is for Christ, and dying is even better.”  So here is the question, if you could choose to be immediately ushered into heaven or to stay behind and continue your mission, the choice was yours, which would you choose?

There is no question that this is a selfish question.  If God wanted us to be in heaven, He would send a bus to flatten us a pancake.  Obviously if we are reading this it means that He still has plans for us.  It is hard though because sometimes life is hard.  We do not live on the mountaintops.  There are also a lot of valleys that we are forced to travel through in this journey of life.  A lot of times it would be easier to just give up and decide to join our departed loved ones in heaven.  Being emotional people, I’m happy that God does not give us that option.  We would all be gone because we all have faced hardships when it would have been easy to give up.  Praise God that He is sovereign and in control of everything.  I praise Him because it is He who has numbered my days.  So, while we are still here, let’s continue to work to fulfill the mission that He has set before us.