If you found out.......

[Guest Thomas I believe]

Greetings to all of you in our Lord Jesus Christ. Although this may seem kind of a strange topic i was curious how everyone felt about this. If you found out you had a serious illness and the doctors said you had 5 days to live, what would you do in the remaining 5 days. Death is something we all will face but what would you do if you had 5 days left ? And yes i promise i will share my feelings on this.

[Gerioke]

My last 5 days would go to my children. They have a lifetime ahead of them and I wouldn't want to burden them with some kind of abandonment complex. I would also have them pray for me as I know they love me and they love the Lord.

Sorry it's not more virtuous but that's how I feel.

[elkieDannsa' Air An Drochaid]

Been there?done that! and God brought me out alive! Praise Jesus my Saviour and Friend!

My time was spent in prayer and those praying for me when I was going through this. The Lord is never far and He responded with a miracle and I am no longer critical! and I am here alive! and I thank my Father in heaven for His Mercy!

elkie

[Rania]

I'd rent a beautiful home on a beautiful beach and invite my entire family to join me for the final five days.

During that time, I'd take long walks on the beach with each person individually, telling them exactly how much I love them. I'd praise their qualities and love on them through the entire walk. I would leave nothing unsaid.

During the evening we would sit around together with the guitars and piano and sing hymns and other spiritual songs. We'd pray together and we'd talk of heaven. I would ask my brother, who is a Pastor to read the Psalms out loud.

I'd ask my daddy to rock me one last time.

Rania

[elkieDannsa' Air An Drochaid]

The thing is... sometimes we are in the hosp when we are told we have near no chance to survive, no time left ,not even five days to do anything! more like 5 minutes! PRAYER in all things For God is Faithful.

I know this because I been there. There where and when you hear that you are going to die if you have surgery and if you dont., you are going to die!.either way you are dying! the doctors are panicing..but I knew too late for p0anic even, I knew I was in GOds very hands! and then I was critical for two weeks...nothing they could do..But JEsus knew what HE could do and we knew HE could(although I felt like Psalms 23 in the shodow of death, HE walked with me there! and HE brought me out! It was too late to do anything at all, all the I would of dones-were simply GONE.

I was in and out of conciousness for weeks, I remember praying, I remember people praying for me, I remember the pastors there. I remember that moment when I knew the Lord was doing something and I thought I might live and the next day I was out of the woods! Praise GOd!

Praise God.

Praise God!

I didn't know I was going ot have a new and first grandchild on the way when that happened. I feel so blessed to know him and to be with my children and family again.

IT is hard when you are right there and you know tiem it about up or possibly up and there is NO time left to do the things you thought you woould do. My thoughts were with my hubby and sons.

Everyday I am grateful to be here.

WE don't know when our time is up. We only know that we have a Mighty God who has given us life here adn we can bless HIm with what we do with it and what we do to help our families know JEsus and HIs love for our famlies!

elkie

[Leonard]

Well as soon as Easter Service is over, I guess I would fly to Hawaii to see my daughter and grandkids. I would enjoy doing Matens and Vespers with them until the end.

[Guest Thomas I believe]

I agree with Elkie on this subject. And Elkie Praise the Lord ! Your testimony is convincing truth of what God can do for us. Yes the Lord decides when its time. So should'nt we always be ready. Yes we should. Do we have amends to make? If we do mend your ways! Are there sins we have not professed? Repent ! Unfinished business we been procrastinating on. Complete what is undone. And Rania i love what you said about spending close personal time with Our Lord and our loved ones. But if you were told you had 5 days to live... are you ready ?

[buckthesystem]

"....if you found out you had a serious illness and you only had five days left before your death ....." Hmm, pretty difficult.

Having a serious illness I think it rather likely that you would be incapacitated to an extent and therefore wouldn't be able to do much in the way of hard physical activity. Personally I would take a leave from work - not bother resigning or people would ask too many questions. I, personally, wouldn't want to go round advertising the fact that I was "on my way out".

I would then plan to spend the remaining time at home and not go out unless I absolutely had to. Telephone and email is a good way to "say goodbye" to valuable friends and family who are not within "shouting" distance.

I would then spend the time going through all papers, insurances etc., checking that they are "up to date", "paid up" and that there would be no reason why the companies would refuse to pay out to the beneficiaries. I don't have much in the way of property so would leave the aspect of "who gets what" to be sorted out by those left alive.

The main object would be to try and make sure that anyone left behind wouldn't be stuck with the burdan of "handling my affairs" and "tying up loose ends". I would spend the rest of the time in prayer and contemplation of where I might be going and how excited I would be to be in the position of knowing basically when.

This would be wonderful. We often tell ourselves we are "too busy" to make time for communicating with the Lord and we will do that "later". However, the absolute priority would be to try and bring as many people to the H/S as possible. This would be a great opportunity to be an example of happiness in the Lord - you know, "look at me, I'm dying and look how happy I am at the prospect of living with my father".

[shepherdsgrace]

I appreciate so much Elkie's testimony. Thanks for sharing.

And I really do not know what I would do. I might just hoe the garden and walk the dog, pray and keep my heart open to God. It seems to me that I would want to be in continual communion with the Lord. Yes. I think that is what I would do, be in communion with the Lord and just let him guide those last few days.......

[David from New Bern]

Drop to my knees and ask the Lord to show me what is my assignment for the last days of my life?

Edited April 13, 2006 by David from New Bern