It is great fun to ask a little kid how old he or she is. Usually the answers come with fractions. “I am 3 and a half.” Two months later you get, “I’m three and three fourths.” They like to hurry it along. Birthdays are milestones working our way to thirteen when we are no longer a child, or sixteen when we can get a driver’s license, a passage to freedom.
Milestones are important to us and come in many forms. This devotional is a milestone for me. It represents hundreds of hours of starting at a blank computer screen. Sometimes my wife will walk by and ask what I am writing about and my answer is “I don’t know. I haven’t written it yet. Once I read it I’ll tell you.”
Goals are also important to us. Without a goal we just drift in life. Therefore I have a new goal. 10,000. I’ll be sure to let you know when I get there. It should be about 2025. In the meantime there will be birthdays, baptisms, anniversaries, graduations and most likely a wedding or two. Also it will be a time to grow and seek new ways to tell you how much Jesus loves you and how He will be extraordinarily happy when you accept His gift. And oh what a gift it is. In John 5 He told us that when we accept we cross over to eternity. Now that’s a milestone worth remembering.
Written by Roger Bothwell on December 30, 2013
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