Tonight, as we go to bed, we will set the alarm for tomorrow, either to go to work or to get up for an appointment.
But the fact is that there is no assurance or any guarantee that we will be alive tomorrow.
And we may even plan big things for tomorrow, in spite of having no knowledge of the future.
Maybe we can call that hope, or faith, or at least it is something that keep us looking forward and moving along with life.
But, what if, we are afflicted with a grave illness or disease, and we are told that we have a limited time left to live.
How would we feel about that, and how would we react to that?
In the 1st reading, king Hezekiah fell ill and was at the point of death, and the prophet Isaiah came and told him to put his affairs in order, as he was going to die.
Hezekiah prayed to the Lord and shed many tears.
Our reaction, if we were Hezekiah, would also be quite similar.
But the Lord heard Hezekiah’s prayer and was merciful to him and cured him of his illness and even granted him another 15 years of life.
It was a testimony of the Lord’s mercy and that He hears the prayers of those who are faithful to Him and do what is right and just.
But Hezekiah would also know that the next 15 years of his life would be dedicated to the Lord and to do what the Lord wants of him.
Those 15 years will be years of blessings that Hezekiah would be grateful and thankful for.
And just as the Lord was merciful to Hezekiah, the Lord is also merciful to us.
The Lord will listen to our prayers and grant us our needs.
We may not know how many more years of life we will have or what the future holds for us.
But just as Jesus is the Master of the sabbath, He is also master of our lives and our future.
Let us put our trust and hope in Him, and we won’t ask how many years of life we would have.
Rather it would be how much love and life we would put into those years.