Not knowing when...

Hebrew 9:27-28

²⁷Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, ²⁸so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

Just a part of the passage from today's Our Daily Bread that caugt my eye. The devotion was talking about two young girls that were sure of their belief in Jesus Christ and their place in heaven and that they had just affirmed this belief--one on the way home from a children's event and the other at her church--then a fire swept through their home the next morning killing them both. Thank goodness you really only have to die once, it would be hard to live through multiple "not knowing when you're going" feelings; it's hard enough not knowing when you're going to go this one time we do have.