If You're not dead, You're Not Done Part 3 Trilogy

 Dr. Jeremiah mentioned this today and I can confirm this truth. There is no Retirement Plan for the army of God. 

The world's view of mankind is that their lives go downhill inevitably. While physically this is often true, it is not true of the spirit and the mind, which can continue on its path until its last day on this earth, if preserved by a prayerful life in God's will.

Often God blesses His child with great compensations replacing lost mobility and strenuous activity. replacing frenetic physical work with enriched mental and spiritual wisdom, now there is time to meditate on long years sustained, blessed, preserved by God, enabling us to look back on long years of struggle in facing uncertainty and the unknown and now see no fear, doubts, pain past events, which were once both, just a page in the panorama left behind and the added strength and grace looking back as each crushing blow becomes merely a day in the life God gave us.

Would this loving Creator and Savior preserve the memories, experience and absolute knowledge of His sure hand leading me to such daily communion with my Lord just for my own assurance and joyfully pleasant way to spend this time with Him, less distracted with things of this world, when I know there are many who have not yet met Him, or who struggle with fear and doubt, who don't yet have long history with Him, which will someday offer such blessings. 

While I have tongue, keyboard and functioning mind to encourage someone still on a part of this uphill road I passed perhaps decades ago, how can I not? Soon I will no longer remain able to speak directly to my brothers and sisters (and at almost 90 years; but while I look forward to that day and while I am not yet dead, I must continue to abide in faith and truth.

“‘But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.’”    (Acts 1:8)  

Tell Archippus: “See to it that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord.” Col. 4:17

David also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the temple of the LORD is finished.    Chronicles 28:20

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.  Romans 11:2912      

        The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, 12 He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.  14They will still yield fruit in old age; They shall be full of sap and very green, Psalm 92:12 - 14

                     If you're not dead, you are not done!