Harry Houdini's favourite act was to be tied up, locked in an iron chest, thrown off a boat and then escape to tell about it, He escaped from a straitjacket while hanging from a skyscraper, He escaped after being buried under 6 feet of dirt. He cheated death for years. To his audiences, he must have seemed invincible. Maybe Houdini believed he was. No one would've guessed what would finally do to him in.
Houdini was talking with a group of students after a lecture in Montreal, telling them that his stomach muscles were strong they could take any blow. Out of the blue, one of the students fired off two punches to his abdomen. Houdini died 12 days later of a ruptured appendix.
King Solomon must have seemed invincible too. No one in Israel before him had as much stuff. He was the wisest and wealthiest man around. But none of it could provide an escape from the most powerful sucker punch of them all : death.
Death is something that none of us will escape unless Jesus returns in our lifetime. So what advice do we get from the smartest man who ever lived? "Whatever you do, do well" (Ecclesiastes 9 : 10).
That means: Whatever you believe Jesus wants you to do today - do it! Don't wait for the "perfect" time. And do it with your whole heart. Give it your all. Always try your hardest.
Some people know the end is near, from disease or old age. For others, they never see it coming. No matter how or when death comes, what will matter most is the choices we made when given the chance.
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