Walking Time Bombs

This article is dedicated to a dear friend of mine.

Her friend called her a "Walking Time Bomb". He made that statement because my friend has an illness which could cause her death -- anytime.

I didn't think that the phrase "You are a walking time bomb" is fair. I have other friends who are terminally ill, and would die suddenly too - conditions where the lung will collapse anytime, conditions where the kidney may fail completely anytime and cancer which might take them away anytime. These are people around my age. But all of them, including this dear friend, aren't the only walking time bombs.

I lost a friend ten years ago. He was a school athlete. He passed out while running on the track during PE (physical education) and he never woke up. He didn't know that he had a time-bomb within himself. Would you say that he was a walking time-bomb?

I lost a friend during his army days. Apparently he couldn't take the stress of the military training. He jumped off a building. He activated his own bomb. Would you say that he was a walking time-bomb?

I lost a friend three years ago. He was on a vacation trip at the Phi Phi islands with his girlfriend. Little did he expect the Tsunami Waves to come so suddenly and taking him away quickly. He didn't know that his bomb will be activated by unforeseen factors. Would you say that he was a walking time-bomb?

If the word "bomb" is used to describe deaths, then I would say that we are all walking time-bombs.

James 4:14

"Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."

We never know when we'll be going away from this earth. And so to whom this article is dedicated to, if you are reading this, tell your friend that you aren't the only walking time bomb around. Tell him that he is also a walking time bomb. Because we all are.

Luke 12:20a
"God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you.'"

Dear friends, if we recognize ourselves as walking time bombs, how then should we be living our lives?

Psalms 144:3-4

" O LORD, what is man that you care for him, the son of man that you think of him?
Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow."