Today’s Scripture Reading (October 17, 2012): Joshua 13
I signed up for Life Insurance Product called Freedom 55 when
I was in my twenties. It was back in the day when I was naive enough to believe
what the salesman wanted to sell me. It was not necessarily that the product
was bad, except that I guess it was. Later, I came to understand that combining
life insurance and investments into a single product was only to make both less
effective. And as much as I sometimes come to the end of the day and I want to
quit, I also realize that that is probably one of the unhealthiest things for
me to do. Freedom 55 sounds like a good thing to try to achieve, but we cannot
exist – we cannot live - without a purpose.
And so maybe I should not be amazed at the number of seniors
that somehow feel that they have done their time. I watch them move away from both
commitment and purpose. It seems that we have been trained by our culture to
prepare for rest in our later years. I wish that they could see that the only
thing they are really preparing for is death - and that a life outside of
purpose is not a biblical idea.
Joshua’s life had been long. And that meant that the days
that he had left had grown short. So God reminds him that this life has an
expiry date and that there is still a lot that needed to be done. There is
nothing that focuses our attention better than the realization that the days
that we have left to accomplish God’s goals are growing short.
As long as we breathe, we have a purpose that we need to
accomplish. The real rest comes in the life that follows this one. But if we
are here, it is for a reason. Go and accomplish that reason.
Tomorrow’s Scripture Reading: Joshua
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