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I think the picture is self-explanatory on what I would like to talk about in this message.
When 9/11 comes up, sometimes in the back of your head, you may think that it was mentioned a lot already. Sure, you may get sick of people mentioning it and even when they link it to a time where we need God. Many people think that 9/11 is but a drop of water in the ocean of deaths that have occurred by tragedies. Technically, its not even that major of an event - many other terrible events happened in history, why make a big deal of this one?

J. F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Sure, there were other assassinations before but this one made a big hit on Americans. Ask your teacher about the Kennedy assassination and they'll tell you everything and even what they were doing on that day. The same is for us (or should be). I remember what I was doing on 9/11 and its only because of its great importance. It's a day that taught me a valuable lesson - Living everyday on Earth wasn't the guarantee in the contract.

I once heard a sermon on a radio station one Sunday morning. The preacher said that we shouldn't expect to be able to stand tomorrow because we can't guarantee ourselves that we can stand the next second. If God gives us the ability to stand, what makes us think we have the right to say we'll live on till we're old?

Now, I'm not saying you should think you'll die the next second. Just acknowledge that its not guaranteed. Every time I think about something that will happen soon, I think about all the little details. Yet, 99% of the time, it doesn't go the way I thought. That's the thing. We don't know what will happen to our lives. God does. We have to act like each day is our last. Now the real question is, what would we do if we were to die tomorrow?

One of my Sunday School teachers once brought that question up to us as a group and gave us each 10 seconds to answer it. So we went around the group and each one went on about how they'd do something special or go to church or tell people what they really thought of them and yatta, yatta, yatta.
After this little exercise, he asked us a question that changed me.
"So each of you are saying that on the last day of your life, you wouldn't even change someone else? Are you telling me that you know no one that you can make into a believer of Christ to save them?"

Then, it hit me. Everyday, we go on and on about what we'll do in the future. Why make a big fuss if you don't know 100% that it'll happen? Randy Pausch, before passing away, was asked along with many other professors to write your 'last lecture'. That is, the lecture you would give if you knew you were going to die soon. The thing is, Randy was already familiar with this since he was going to die already. He wrote a book called The Last Lecture which displays his last lecture. It was about childhood dreams and in it, he explained that you should hold onto dreams but also help enabling the dreams of others.

Everyone wants to be saved but some people are just still lost in what being 'saved' really means. We have to show them the true definition - Jesus Christ. Tomorrow may be our last day or maybe, even today. Why not make a difference in someone's life?

"I can't predict the future, I can't change the past,
I have just the present moments to treat as my last."

-----Invader05