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Live To Be 100
Magazine publisher, J.I. Rodale, a zealous advocate of health foods, claimed at the age of 72 that he would live to be 100. The same week his prediction appeared in The New York Times, he was being interviewed for a televison program, claiming that his bones were as strong as ever. Moments after making his boast, he died of a heart attack.
The reasonable person knows that there are no guarantees when it comes to life. Long ago Job declared, “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not” (Job 14:1-2). Centuries later, James wrote, “Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that” (James 4:13-15). This is why it is so important to be saved and ready for eternity. When we leave this world it is too late to prepare for the next world. Do you have ETERNAL LIFE?
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