Will You Live to 100?

Just yesterday and today I was searching the internet and came across the names of people whom many of you may recognize. The surprising thing is not that you would know or have heard of these people, but prominently displayed were their birthdates and death dates.

As you may suspect, nearly all of these people were born in the twentieth century—some were born at the latter part of the century while others lived to the “ripe old age” of 60, 70, 80, or 90! Think for a moment now. Even if such a man or woman lived to age 70, 80, 90 or 100, this is still a relatively brief time, isn’t it! Just recently, Betty White died at age 99 (with no hint that she ever repented) and we may marvel at this. Yet, isn’t this a short time compared to a millennium of 1,000 years, or the age of the earth about 6,000 years ago, or one million years (as some secular history books affirm)!

Some of you may not even like reading of someone’s death. You are used to read of 15-year-olds, or 20-year-olds, or perhaps 25-year-olds, and why would you want to read of death—especially of a person who lived fewer than 100 years! After all, Scripture says in Psalm 90:10 (the only one written by Moses): “As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for soon it is gone and we fly away.”

And Solomon, whom we all know to be the wisest man on earth at one time wrote in Ecclesiastes 12: “Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near when you will say, ‘I have no delight in them’” (12:1). Have you reached these “evil days” and the debilitation that Solomon describes? If we will only live to much fewer than Solomon or Moses writes, why would we want to consider our lifespan?

Why? Because. barring Christ’s return (which may happen at any moment (Matthew 24:42, 44), we all must die! This shocks you and me! We may be called away at age 20 in a car wreck, or age 22 by cancer, or age 25 by murder—but we will all die and leave this world! Our bodies will either be turned to the earth by cremation or, more likely, we will die and be buried in a cript or in the ground and will be eaten by worms! Are you prepared for this end?

God tells us in His word, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:52). This is a climactic event and we must ask, are you and I prepared?

We must be prepared for some mistakenly think that they will immediately go to be with God (whatever this means). But Jesus tells us that only the few are on the “narrow way” that leads to eternal life. Most are on the “broad way” that will end in destruction (Matthew 7:13-14). Are you prepared for the future? Am I? Now is the time to “make certain about His calling and choosing you” (2 Peter 1:10).

We don’t need to be a well-known personality as I learned on the internet (see at the beginning). We will all face death—for good or ill. Are you prepared? Most of those (or even all of them whom I noticed online) whom I saw on the internet were not! I hope you are or will be!