This Is the Way!

The great thing as a child of God is to be found at your post, living each day as if it is your last, but planning ahead as if you are going to be living in the world for a hundred more years.[1]

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice saying, “This is the way, walk in it”. (Isaiah 30:21)

We have all heard the question, “What would you do today if you knew you would die tomorrow.” However, few of us ask the question, “What would you begin today if you knew you would live for 100 more years.”  

Hopefully, it would be something grand. There is much we could do with 100 years, things that would have a much larger impact than a round-the-world-cruise, climbing Mt. Everest, or writing a famous piece of literature. Think bigger! Yes, much bigger!

You could have a witness for Jesus Christ to generations. You could tackle a social injustice and see it through, all the way to the end. You could start a mission project and see it reach an entire culture. If your smile lifted one person’s spirit each day you lived, you would touch more than 36,000 different people! If you shared the Gospel once each month, you would witness to more than 1,200 people. If you discipled those people to share with others. . . Well, I cannot imagine the numbers that could know God’s love through your efforts.

So, we could do GREAT things, right? We know that. We also know that few of us will live to see 100. My question is, “Why would we do nothing, simply because we might not be around long enough to see it become something grand.   

Paul has an excellent perspective on this. “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.” (1 Corinthians 3:6). What if Paul decided never to plant because he wasn’t going to see the benefits of his planting? What if Apollos decided not to water because he would not see the benefits of his watering? We must always be prepared to face the day as our last one, but we should never withdraw our hand from the plow and idly wait for it either.

May God find us ready to go when he comes to gather us to himself. May he also find us busy in his fields to the moment he does.

Craig C. Krueger

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[1] C. S. Lewis