Medical research verifies that family history, vocational choices and personal health management practices combine to have a major bearing on life expectancy.
But there’s no denying that godly living will typically lengthen a person’s life as well.
Godly people resist destructive lifestyle choices such as substance abuse or disease-prone immoral behavior or violent settings that attract conflict.
Godly people are also better equipped emotionally, typically, to resist the destructive effects of stress that shove so many toward heart attacks and strokes.
Listen, becoming a Christian doesn’t assure an automatic increase of five to 10 years of life…. or more.
But it does greatly improve the likelihood of dying old and “full of years.”
And that doesn’t even count the times that surely happen for many believers when God supernaturally intervenes to protect them from deadly accidents, illnesses or assaults that might have happened in the absence of their faith.
Why would God do such a thing? Because His purposes for our lives had not yet been completed.
And so the believer’s life on earth goes on longer than it might have in the absence of faith.
Why this message today?
Here’s what I read this morning in my devotional reading:
“The fear of the LORD adds length to life, but the years of the wicked are cut short.” (Proverbs 10:27)
Join me in loving and living for the Lord, my friend.
We’ve got work to do for His sake and He promises to give us more time to do it than we’ll have if we don’t live for Him.
As always, I love you
Martin
