The Daily Walk | 06.15.2026 | Pastor Mike Gibbons | Luke 12:19-20

19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

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Good morning, First Baptist Wimberly. This is Mike Gibbons. Welcome to Monday. Psalm 90 that we walked through yesterday can be difficult to take to heart. None of us really wants to think about dying. There is something in us that tells us it is not good and not natural. And indeed, it is not. It is not part of God's good, original design. It is the last enemy. And in our flesh, we really don't want to focus a lot of time and energy thinking about it. But eventually, awareness of our mortality catches up to us. And on that day, the strategies of denial and procrastination fail. Whether it's the terminal diagnosis, the tragic before her time death, the close brush of an accident or an illness. Any of these make us pull up short. And we can no longer deny, distract, or run from the fact that death is coming our way eventually. In the past, funerals especially presented an opening for faithful Christian witness to the hope afforded by union with Christ in his death. That isn't the case as much anymore, but I truly believe that Psalm 90 reminds us that part of our Christian work is to proclaim the reality of death. It is a central part of the gospel we believe in. The tradition of memento mori, remember death, was not merely a medieval invention, it is a central scriptural focus. Our culture of eat, drink, and be merry needs to hear that death can't be pushed away. Luke 12, verses 19 through 20 show us this in no uncertain terms. Let me read those. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, be merry. But God said to him, Fool, this night your soul is required of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be? To proclaim death is to remind us that we are not God. We are creatures made by a loving God. So to announce death is to proclaim God. Many times we need to feel the weight of death, which hopefully Psalm 90 did for us yesterday. And after we have sat with that for a while, we then turn to Jesus, the resurrection and the life, and be grateful even more for his sacrifice. This is Mike Gibbons, and I love being your pastor.