TODAY’S WORD FOR WEDNESDAY MARCH 16, 2016.
RETIRE
Withdraw from an occupation or career because of age; make inactive; relieve of duty.
At the age of fifty they must retire from their regular service and work no longer. They may assist their brothers in performing their duties at the tent of the meeting, but they themselves must not do the work. Numbers 8:25 (NIV)
We are far beyond what is regarded as the age of retirement. Since we are now in our 80’s some people that do not know us very well will ask us if we are going to retire soon.
The word “retirement” has never been in our vocabulary. The reason is simple. When we accepted Jesus as our Savior we made a commitment to serve Him until we died. Even though we were both very young, even before we were teenagers, that commitment was real and stayed with us. When we were married, fifty-nine years ago this year, we decided to go into full time Christian ministry and made the same commitment again to serve the Lord until we died.
In the verse we have put above from Numbers, God through Moses told the Levites to retire from their regular duties at the age of 50. Although God retired the older Levites from doing the heavy work of moving the Tabernacle as the Israelites moved to the Promised Land, He did not want them to stop helping others. Thus it was only a change in job description and not what we might call retirement today. God said to the older Levites that they should “minister with the brethren in the Tabernacle” and assist them in performing the duties of the Tabernacle.
Just as God gave the Levites a change in their job description He has done the same for us. For over 50 years we worked in the area of leadership and supervision in ministry ministries. And now for over 15 years we have worked as consultants to Christian ministries and are now writing these daily devotionals being sent daily to over 30,000 subscribers by internet.
We believe that when a believer in Jesus comes to the point in their life that they can retire and retire with the means to live the rest of their life they should approach it just as a change in job descriptions. God does not want us to quit. He expects us to keep on serving Him. When you get to that point in life reach out to find your new job description. It can be with a church, with an inner-city charity, with a hospital or so many other places.
So many people today retire and soon find out they have nothing to do and nowhere to go so they sit like a so called couch potatoes and just seem to waste away.
Paul advises us in Galatians 6:9-10 to not to become weary in doing good and use every opportunity to do good onto others. We are never too old to reap a harvest if we never give up.
Let us assure you that life takes on a whole new meaning when you invest all your time and effort in representing our Lord and in helping others. Doing whatever we are able to do in order to serve the Lord always brings blessings. No one is ever too old to be a testimony of God’s love or be a prayer warrior praying for the needs of others.
We need your prayers that God will continue to enable us to do whatever He calls us to do.
Our memory verse for this week is found in Revelation 3:20.
Behold I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him and he with Me.
Give me the strength dear Lord, and help me to serve You today. Help me to never be weary of doing good and sharing with others the good news of the gospel.
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