Die Doing Something
IllustrationStory★★★★THERE was a TV show about a very heavy man who decided to change his life. This man was very heavy … around a thousand pounds. All he did was lie in bed, because that’s all he could do. He just lay in bed all day long waiting to die.
His doctor had to come to his house to see him. On one visit, the doctor shrugged and told the man that there was nothing else he could do for him. He said, “Well, if you are just going to lie here and do nothing, you are going to die. I can guarantee you that.
Instead of lying there and waiting for death, at least die doing something.” That struck a cord. The man decided to do something. The television show fast-forwarded to a year later and showed that same man, 250 pounds thinner and walking around.
He decided that he didn’t want to go out like that. He chose not to settle. Some of us have settled although we have the power to get up and do something through the power of God at work within us.
The point
A very heavy man lying in bed received a doctor's challenge to die doing something rather than waiting passively; he chose to change and lost 250 pounds.