If you look carefully, you will find people all around you who show few signs of life.
They haven’t flatlined yet, but they stopped singing long ago. Rarely do their hearts
race in excitement over the possibilities held by a new day. They lurch through the
darkness like zombies, clinging to memories of what life used to be. But deep inside
they long to live again.
You can find them in high schools, retirement homes, corporate offices, and church
pews; and sometimes they stare back at you in the mirror. They are what the little boy
named Cole saw in the movie The Sixth Sense. He saw dead people. I am talking
about people who are alive but living as if they are dead. People who are fading
physically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually. Even though they have many
years of life ahead of them, they are unplugging their own life-support systems.
I see it in their eyes, hear it in their questions, and since it in their body language.
I see it in the way they have neglected their health. I hear it in their confessions
of a desire to live again. They have lost their purpose of making God their
greatest treasure. They have moss on their butts! “
Excerpt From: Ken Davis. “Fully Alive.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/fully-alive/id607421690?mt=11
How many Christians set their sights on a retiring—resting, playing, traveling, etc.—
the world’s substitute for heaven since the world does not believe that there will be
heaven beyond the grave. The mindset or our culture is that we must reward ourselves
now in this life for the long years of work. Eternal rest and joy after death is an irrelevant
consideration. When you don’t believe in heaven to come and you are not content in the
glory of Christ now, you will seek the kind of retirement that the world seeks. Did God
create us so we could just play golf? Fish? Fill in the blank with your favorite retirement
activity is that all there is?
“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil
against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in
heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
Matthew 5:11,12
consideration. When you don’t believe in heaven to come and you are not content in the
glory of Christ now, you will seek the kind of retirement that the world seeks. Did God
create us so we could just play golf? Fish? Fill in the blank with your favorite retirement
activity is that all there is?
“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil
against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in
heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
Matthew 5:11,12
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