The Measure for What You Do Today

There is an inter­est­ing way to mea­sure life, and change the per­spec­tives about what you do on any given day. It is based on an imag­i­na­tive ques­tion that goes like this: If you died next week, but were rein­car­nated, and returned as an adult to the com­mu­nity in which you now reside, what would you do today that would make your return ben­e­fi­cial? Or, another way to put it is: What can you do today that would make your return a wel­come event?
There have been numer­ous movies that have toyed with this idea. In the mid-nineteen-eighties there was a movie called Made In Heaven, that pre­sented a sce­nario based on this idea. Could you do some­thing that made your return worth­while? Could you invest in oth­ers in a way that would make com­ing back twenty-five years later a pleas­ant expe­ri­ence?
If you pon­der that for a while, you will begin to get a sense of what Jesus said when he said, “When the Son of Man returns, will he find faith on the earth?” Would the actions of Jesus make such a dif­fer­ence, that it would be worth his return­ing? Could he change the course of his­tory toward the good?
I think that ques­tion has been answered. He did. He changed the course of his­tory. Even though the path since then has had its wars, we are so much bet­ter off now than we were two-thousand years ago. We may have a long ways to go, but at least human­ity, in gen­eral, is headed in the right direc­tion. Things may still be pretty imper­fect, but six and a half bil­lion peo­ple now live on the earth in rel­a­tive har­mony. That would not have been the case had some of us not got­ten a glimpse of uncon­di­tional love…then learned how to imi­tate it.