I just read an interesting list that suggested how older people should live and why. A couple of their foundational points were that most people will live to around 76, and that 38 is therefore middle age rather than 50. I had lunch the other day with a friend who mentioned he had recently been told that he had approximately 10.8 years left to live. At the same time, I had an older friend spending a few days with me, and subjects like Social Security and Medicare—things we had not considered or talked about in our decades-long friendship—were comfortably included in our conversation. Because of a health condition I was diagnosed with at age 11, I had a child’s view that it basically meant I would die very young. Thankfully, that was wrong, but I lived with a comfortable understanding not to waste a minute and to always live with purpose and a positive outlook. The overwhelming view of death is as a failure of medicine. It is a negative. We are pretty sure that statistics show one out of every one life will end in physical death. Solomon wants us to live long, healthy lives. His prescription is that as we practice and keep in the forefront of our lives God’s truths, we will live long, healthy, and prosperous lives. What a wonderful and powerful promise in a death-fearing world. Scripture calls death our final enemy. However, along with Solomon’s promise is God’s promise that goes beyond. He promises eternal life and a complete freedom from the power of death and darkness. Today, live with confidence in the One who is Life. #BeTheEdge
“Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.’” Jesus
