What is the secret of long life?
If you have rad this blog or any length of time you will know I want to live to be ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD. It has been a dream and I am really not sure why. I don't dwell on that goal, but it is in the periphery of my thoughts. Today, when I was reading Genesis 5, I was reading the genealogies of the first families in scripture. Of course I was fascinated by their years, especially Methuselah. 969 years of life. I have to chuckle because we often think of milestone birth days like our 50th. In Methuselah years 50 years old is like being 5 years old in my lifetime. On Methuselah's fiftieth birthday, he was just getting started. "When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech. After the birth of Lamech, Methuselah lived another 782 years, and he had other sons and daughters. Methuselah lived 969 years, and then died." (Genesis 5:25-27, NLT) What is the secret of long life? If I want to live to be one hundred, which is a milestone in modern times, do...
