As I approach my 59th birthday, I find myself wondering more and more, "Am I really ready to face Jesus? Have I honestly leveraged my time, my talent, and my treasure in the most strategic ways? Have I lived a life worthy of the gospel? Have I shown my family and my friends that Jesus is supremely valuable to me? Have I really purposed to live 'contra mundum'? Have I avoided caving into the American culture that is in pursuit of personal peace and affluence? Am I radically generous? Am I passionately on mission? Am I more prayerful, more focused, more sacrificial, more productive the older I get? Am I really ready to meet Jesus?"
Yesterday, Randy Alcorn shared a video on Twitter from Real Ministries that reinforced these questions for me. The speaker is Francis Chan. He is now is 44. Chan shares the idea that life goes by more and more quickly as we age. He says that in our 20s, life goes by at 20 mph. In our 30's, life goes by at 30 mph. He made me think, "I'm almost 60. Life is speeding by me at 60 mph. Life will soon be past. Am I doing what will last?"
In a culture that has made an idol out of retiring into a lifestyle of R&R, we need to wonder what it looks like to age biblically.
Check out this very well done 3 1/2 minute video as Chan helps us think, repent, and leverage all we have been given for Christ's Kingdom causes. Before it's too late.
Yesterday, Randy Alcorn shared a video on Twitter from Real Ministries that reinforced these questions for me. The speaker is Francis Chan. He is now is 44. Chan shares the idea that life goes by more and more quickly as we age. He says that in our 20s, life goes by at 20 mph. In our 30's, life goes by at 30 mph. He made me think, "I'm almost 60. Life is speeding by me at 60 mph. Life will soon be past. Am I doing what will last?"
In a culture that has made an idol out of retiring into a lifestyle of R&R, we need to wonder what it looks like to age biblically.
Check out this very well done 3 1/2 minute video as Chan helps us think, repent, and leverage all we have been given for Christ's Kingdom causes. Before it's too late.
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