This morning there was an article on Yahoo that stated:
New research in the U.S has suggested living to one hundred could be a lot easier than imagined. University of Rochester researchers have has suggested that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life are still able to reach the century mark. More than 500 women and 200 men who had reached one hundred were assessed for the project, which found roughly two-thirds had avoided significant age-related ailments.
That article replaced one of yesterdays lead articles and one of the saddest stories I have read in awhile.
It was the first dance of a marriage that was not to be. Kim Sjostrom and Teddy Efkarpides had been married for less than an hour on January 19 when the bride crumpled in her husband’s arms during a rendition of a Greek song that means simply “love me”. At 36, Ms Sjostrom was dead from heart disease.
And yesterday there was another life nearly ended “early” in the hockey world (don’t play this if blood bothers you).
None of us know the number of our days. However, God does and intends for us to live them for His glory. Seize the day in this way. In the words of John Piper, “don’t waste your life away.” In Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan gives us a wonderful contrast of how true believers seizing the day versus what men often do. Christians and Hopeful met up with a Mr. ByEnds.
He was a fair weather Christian who pursued his own interests above the kingdom of God. Mr. Byends parted ways with them and described (Mr. Byends considers all of this a negative) Christian and Hopeful as different from him in a glorious way:
Why, in their belligerent manner they (Christian and Hopeful) conclude it’s their duty to rush on their journey in all kinds of weather, and I’m waiting for the proper wind and tide. They’re in favor of hazarding everything for God at any moment, and I’m in favor taking all advantages to secure my life and estate. They’re in favor of holding their notions even though all other men are against them, but I’m in favor of religion in what and for as far as the times and my safety will sustain it. They’re in favor or Religion when in rags and contempt, but I’m in favor of him when we walks in his golden slippers in the sunshine and with applause.
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