Blue Zone & God's Zone

We have been watching on Netflix a semi documentary entitled Blue Zone.  It is a study of the places this author has visited that has the highest % of longest living people, the centurions. 

Considering that my life almost ended, I became very interested in nth4 series.  I have learned target there were something s that I should have done early on to help me keep my health and live longer (unless God “calls’ me home” unexpectantly). But this made me think of another aspect of life and its length.  Its not so much about the length of life that we have but about what we do with the time that we do have.  

As Bec and I prepare to move into a retirement community, I’ve wondered what I would be doing with the time that I have. I know I won’t be playing golf, since after my first game 60 years ago, I have been banned from all golf courses in the world due to the destruction I cause on the greens. But I will be doing those things that will allow me to keep moving as I get older, and those activities that will keep my mind as alert as it wants to be. But for the 50 years I answered God’s call on my life being by being pastor and that has now ended.  At least the living out of that call in the pastorate.  So I have this time, but the question is what does God want me to do with it.  It sure is not spending it watching TV, going to as many concerts as I can, going to ballgames, and hanging out with friends. God’s time has got to be focused on Him and what He wants me to do.  Some of it can be done being with folks going to concerts, ballgames, and having a few friends over to watch a selected movie or two. But what is the intentional, deliberate will of God for me in what time I have left? Is it to continue the mission work with the Matthew 25:35 Foundation and our Servants’ Servant Ministry to India or some other place? Is it teaching a class at church, or preaching when (or if) I am called upon? Some of this is being formulated by God in mind as I contemplate this move.  But I suspect there is much more.  The bottom line is, am I still convicted to want my life to centered around God in Christ, as it did when God called me to ministry? Or do I want to retreat to  a entertainment/protective/comfort mode for the remainder of my life? If I pursued the later, then I would ask myself: Is life still worth living if the very life that God has allowed me to have does not serve Him?

So, as my life changes, God’s call does not.  He called me to the ministry of His people, called me to marry Becky and have children and God guided me through these stages in life to do His will in them and He will continue. My conviction of His call upon my life is still as real, alive, motivating now and it is most exciting.   

Grace and Peace,

Quentin

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