What Really Matters
Ray Evans • February 19, 2020
This is my favorite scripture to quote as my wife drags me to the fitness club every morning...along with "God knows the number of my days," (Exodus 23:26) and "I can't make one hair black or white" (Matthew 5:36)
God controls the quantity of life; the number of our days...longer or shorter is in God's hands; but we do have some influence over the quality of our life.
Good health makes the "number of our days" a whole lot better than bad health.
Observing the rows of people on the treadmills and bikes, I remarked to my wife, "I think this is where the Beatles got the inspiration for "All the lonely people."
These were not "happy" people and it occurred to me that the reason "free health care" or "health care" in general is such a big deal today is because people are afraid to die...which is curious given that 85% of Americans think they're going to heaven.
If they're going to heaven, why would they be afraid to die? Truth be told, they don't really believe in heaven and hell; because they don't really believe in God.
Oh, they hope heaven is real, just like they hope God is real; but if their life depended on it, when push comes to shove, they don't really know, without a doubt, God is real.
Until they do, nothing else matters.
God controls the quantity of life; the number of our days...longer or shorter is in God's hands; but we do have some influence over the quality of our life.
Good health makes the "number of our days" a whole lot better than bad health.
Observing the rows of people on the treadmills and bikes, I remarked to my wife, "I think this is where the Beatles got the inspiration for "All the lonely people."
These were not "happy" people and it occurred to me that the reason "free health care" or "health care" in general is such a big deal today is because people are afraid to die...which is curious given that 85% of Americans think they're going to heaven.
If they're going to heaven, why would they be afraid to die? Truth be told, they don't really believe in heaven and hell; because they don't really believe in God.
Oh, they hope heaven is real, just like they hope God is real; but if their life depended on it, when push comes to shove, they don't really know, without a doubt, God is real.
Until they do, nothing else matters.
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