Our Days are Numbered
A sober topic, to be sure. So, if you've done any retirement planning, one of the key factors is what you think your "end date" will be. Mine, prior to leukemia, was 93. As all these numbers, it was arbitrary in many ways.
Psalm 90 says:
Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty.
But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away.
and
Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.
at the beginning of Psalm 90, it starts with Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Are days are numbered, and we don't know what that number is, unless the days are very short. My "93" was based on my pre-leukemia health, longevity of my Dad thus far (85), and other paternal men who lived late into their 90's.
Complete remission means I die of something other than leukemia; of "old age." Will that be 93? I just don't know. My days might be very short. It's a challenge for my faith, but ultimately, all our days are numbered. Because of the destruction of sin, we all sin, the wages of sin is death, and we all face a physical death, but
we also face a spiritual death, an eternal death apart from Jesus. Jesus paid that sin, my sin, and so I need not fear the "2nd death."
My retirement plan is much more fuzzy now. but this I know, God provides.
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