One of the perks we get because Reed travels for business is hotel points. We have silver status at Hilton hotels and gold status with Marriott. And one of the perks of having hotel points is priority for a late check out. Most hotels require you to check out by 11 or 12, but occasionally Reed's schedule doesn't fit that time frame, and I shamelessly flaunt our points status to push our departure out until 1 p.m. That's just the kind of power pointers we are.
Segue to my day's Bible study of Job chapter 14. Verse five says, "Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed." Admittedly, Job's life has been a comfortless catastrophe when he lists our lifespan in months, but the teaching that God determines the length of our lives is Bible wide. Moses called it number our days, Hebrews calls it an appointment, David says all the days ordained for me, but the idea is the same--God decides.
That is hard to accept in a culture that believes we control our lifespan by our lifestyle choices. There is nothing wrong with Christians following food or exercise fads or making a living will, unless we believe that by doing so we are changing the length of our lives. Believing that means you've hopped from the Hubris to the Heresy Hotel. Would we even want the power to alter God's eternal purposes with kale and/or cardio? We depart this life at the precise moment God has appointed. Not one minute before, not ten seconds after. No matter how many points we think we have earned in our long-term stay on Earth, we do not have the option of a late check out.
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