Most people do not waste their lives all at once.
They waste them one hour at a time.
One excuse at a time.
One distraction at a time.
That is why these words from Jonathan Edwards still hit home more than 300 years later.
“Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live.”
Edwards was not writing a pleasant quote for social media. He was drawing a line in the sand.
He understood that life is short, time is irreplaceable, and every day we are either becoming the person God called us to be or drifting further away from it.
His resolutions were a declaration of war against fear, laziness, compromise, and wasted time.
“Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”
That is not morbid. It is clarifying.
If this were your final hour, would you still hold that grudge?
Would you still stay silent when you knew you should speak?
Would you still put off calling your family, asking forgiveness, taking the risk, or doing the thing God has been pressing on your heart?
Most of us live as though time is unlimited.
It is not.
Edwards also resolved never to lose a moment of time, but to use it in the most profitable way possible. He was not saying every second must be spent working. He was saying every moment should have purpose.
Work with purpose.
Rest with purpose.
Love your family with purpose.
Pray with purpose.
Live so that, when the end comes, you are not haunted by everything you were too afraid, too distracted, or too comfortable to do.
That may be the most powerful resolution of all, to live now in the way you will wish you had lived when your life is over.
You cannot change yesterday.
You are not promised tomorrow.
But you still have today.
The question is, what are you going to do with it?
Episode 6 of the Lantern Podcast.
Rachel Atwood is a stay at home mom from Grand Rapids, MI who works on the side for Premier Jewelry.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lived through the nightmare most Americans still think could never happen here.
He saw communism up close. He saw what happens when the state replaces God, when ideology replaces truth, and when human beings are reduced to tools of a political machine.
His explanation was simple, devastating, and impossible to ignore.
“Men had forgotten God, that is why all this has happened.”
That is not just a line from history. It is a warning for today.
Look around at what is happening on the radical left in our own country.
The same people pushing Marxist ideas are often the same people sneering at Christianity, mocking traditional faith, attacking biblical values, and treating believers as obstacles to be crushed rather than citizens to be respected.
And it does not stop there.
The same ideological movement that grows hostile toward Christianity also seems to find room for open hostility toward Jews.
Anti-Christian bigotry and antisemitism may not be identical, but they sure seem to travel ...
