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by Bob and Debby Gass
What Are You Living For?
July 20, 2014
‘Grey hair is a crown of splendour; it is attained by a righteous life.’ Proverbs 16:31 NIV
We all live for something; the question is: what? Ben Patterson writes in The Grand Essentials: ‘I have a theory about old age…I believe when life has whittled us down, when joints have failed and skin has wrinkled and capillaries have clogged and hardened, what is left of us will be what we were all along in our essence. Exhibit A: a distant uncle. All his life he did nothing but find new ways to get rich. He spent his [last years] very comfortably, drooling and babbling constantly about the money he had made. When life whittled him down to his essence, all that was left was raw greed. This is what he had cultivated in a thousand little ways over a lifetime. Exhibit B: my wife’s grandmother. When she died in her mid-eighties she had already been senile for several years. What did this lady talk about? The best example I can think of was when we asked her to pray before dinner. She would reach out and hold the hands of those sitting beside her, a broad, beatific smile would spread across her face, her dim eyes would fill with tears as she looked up to heaven and her chin would quiver as she poured out her love to Jesus. That was Edna in a nutshell. She loved Jesus and she loved people. She couldn’t remember our names, but she couldn’t keep her hands from patting us lovingly, whenever we got near her. When life whittled her down to her essence, all there was left was love…for God and love for people.’ What are you living for?
Soulfood: Mt 5:9, Rom 12:17-21, Jas 3:17-18, 2 Ki 6:8-23
The Word for Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright © 2014
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