Time is often what is lacking in life. I opened all my classes by asking the students how much time they had that day. Obviously, the answer was 24 hours. Everyone gets it and not a single second more. So, the question is how we will use our 24 hours. Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living” and someone later added to this, “The unlived life is not worth examining.” Time gives us a chance to examine to live. But when we examine, we must have a baseline, a standard by which to measure our self-examination. This is the role of God in Christ in our lives. It is the very thing that calls us to Him and keeps us clinging to Him, once there. Our desire to be more like Him is the basis, the only sincere basis, for how one might choose to examine and thereby live one’s life. The only way by which we can daily work out our salvation. Retirement is a grand, great awakening of this truth and relationship.
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