A Promise Of Long Life

There is a very active and healthy ninety-year-old lady who comes to the weekly Bible study at my home. (She looks about sixty; her mind is sharp, and her walk is confident.) I absolutely love her! She is an inspiration to everyone who meets her. Why? Because she represents a child of God who has lived all her life righteously before Him, and, as a result, God has richly blessed her with long life. When she speaks, I listen, for she is filled with much wisdom from knowing and experiencing God as her heavenly Father for so long.

The Bible says that God will bless His children with long life if they follow Him and obey all His decrees and commands.

"And if you follow Me

and obey My decrees and My commands

as your father, David, did,

I will give you a long life."

1 Kings 13:14 (NLT)

And God does not just say a long life; He says an enjoyable one!

"And you and your children and grandchildren

must fear the Lord your God

as long as you live.

If you obey all His decrees and commands,

you will enjoy a long life."

Deuteronomy 6:2 (NLT)

This beautiful woman is not afraid to speak her mind about the things of God. She is honest and straight-forward, but at the same time, sweet and humble. In the spring, she will be living in her own apartment, as her husband recently died. There she will be starting up a Bible study so that others in the complex may come to the saving knowledge of God, or come to know Him better. This woman's life is what I call a great testimony of living for God!