August 26, 2014
Numbered Days
Yesterday Bill took the first
of his 23 scheduled radiation treatments. The treatment itself takes only a couple
of minutes, but because of a glitch in the computer system he had time to visit
with fellow patients in the waiting room. One 92 year-old gent, who was there
for his final treatment, was a little impatient that he had to wait an
additional 20 minutes for the computer to get back in sync. The old-timer, a
mountain rancher, was weathered, worn and riddled with cancer. One might think
that this man needed only one more clean shirt; however, I had to laugh when I
learned that just last week he bought himself a new horse. From the perspective
of King Solomon, “So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy
his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will
happen after him” (Ecc 3:22 NIV)?
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Gail;
-----I read a news story the other day about a man in New Jersey having been employed for the last seventy-three years with the same company. The company sold and installed light fixtures. His workspace was above a showroom of unusual and unique lighting equipment which had been fashioned by him out of the more interesting fixtures removed from customers’ locations. At one-hundred-one, he still enjoyed his work of creativity.
-----Ecclesiastes helps us understand that God gives us life and work, both to be enjoyed. Maybe to some, the concept of enjoying work is foreign. But when enjoying it is learned and done, life is good and the way God meant it to be. There’s not much reason, then, to stop.
-----God has simplified the matters of eternal life as well. “Then they said to him, ‘What must we do, to be doing the works of God?’ Jesus answered them, ‘This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.’” (John 6:28-29)
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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