James Garner, Robin Williams, and Joan Rivers, all died in the past few months. Hearing of famous people passing. for just a short while it causes sober thoughts. Time silently passes, hair slowly grays, energy is reduced, wrinkles appear.. These are the signs of the inevitable aging. Yet many live as though death is some nebulous experience that only happens to others, and which for us is way off in the future. But life proves it and the Bible affirms it and like it or not, the ticking of the clock reminds us of it, the changing seasons shout it, the newspaper obituaries thunder it. Death is coming for us all, young and old. Well did the Psalmist write, “So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” And when we have faced the reality of our mortality and prepared for the future by inviting Christ to give us the gift of eternal life, we can say to the Lord with confidence, as the Psalmist did, the Psalmist, “My times are in your hand.”

Pastor Alex Rockwell

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