What does the future hold? Who can answer such a question? Yet, we can get a pretty good idea based on what is happening in the present. At the age of almost 75, I have already experienced the death of my best friend. While it was a gut punch to loose my best friend, my confidant, it opened my understanding to the fact that death grows more common as we age. It’s just an aging thing. Not something we like to think about but it is a reality. Peoples bodies aren’t made to last forever. One of these days we are just going to wear out. The reality is that sometime in the future we are going to die. 

So since it’s inevitable and unavoidable, what should be our perspective about living out our lives? I find myself wrestling with thoughts about the future. Why wrestling? Because sometimes my vision is limited to my life here on earth. I see my body increasing in aches and pains, and running out of strength. Yard work, going up and down the stairs in my house, and keeping my balance presents obstacles in getting things done around here. Eventually, I just won’t be able to do the work it takes to keep up my yard and house. What do I do then?

Well, I could expand my vision and think about life beyond death. I am a believer in God and Jesus Christ. I have God’s Spirit living within me. God has spectacular plans for me after I die because I made a decision to become His child. Plans that include new life beyond this earthly life. I understand from what I’ve read in the Bible, that it is going to be more wonderful than I could imagine. Therefore, I could plant my thoughts in the rich soil of God’s eternal plan as I go about my daily life! And as I’m living my life I can incorporate the promises below. 

Is 46:4 NLV ^,  Even when you are old I will be the same. And even when your hair turns white, I will help you. I will take care of what I have made. I will carry you and will save you. 

Ruth 4:15, He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age.

2 Cor. 4:16, Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

God has laid out a path for me. It’s only when I direct my focus away from His path, that I make myself vulnerable to the enemy’s plans. That’s when the wrestling begins!