Old Age
In the past few days, I have been studying the Book of Joshua, and this morning, I read a verse that made me ponder for a long time. It was Joshua 13 vs 1 - “the Lord said to Joshua, You are now very old and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over.”
That verse made me a bit sad because I do not want to be very old, but still have a lot of land left to take over. I do not want to be very old and still discover that I have not completed the task that is expected of me.
It made me start thinking deeply about my life and wonder what exactly I am doing with it. Every year, I say “Agba ti n de” meaning “I am getting old”. While that is true, I do not want to grow older and realize I have done little or almost nothing for God. I do not want to reach a point where I look back, and all I have been able to accumulate is just wealth, achievements, and career progress, but little or no progress in my journey with God, in the assignment that He has given me, or in the purpose He has placed on my life.
Matthew 9:37 says, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few…” There is so much to still be done. There are so many sheep without a shepherd, and I just hope beyond me that you would also feel this sense of urgency that I rested on my heart this morning.
I know that sometimes, we assume the “land” God has called us to possess is only about big careers, ministry titles, or public influence, but often it begins with obedience in small places. There are conversations we keep postponing, people we have not discipled, prayers we have not prayed, gifts we have buried, and areas of surrender we continue to resist. The tragedy is not merely growing old; it is growing old while remaining spiritually stagnant.
The world celebrates achievement, status, and accumulation, but Heaven measures differently. God is not only going to ask what we built for ourselves; He will also ask what we did with the assignments, people, and opportunities He placed in our hands. Did we love people? Did we point others to Christ? Did we live with eternity in mind?
I think this is why the verse unsettled me so deeply this morning. Joshua had accomplished so much, yet God still said there was land left to take. It reminds me that spiritual complacency is dangerous. As long as we still have breath, there is still work to do, still lives to touch, still territory to claim for the Kingdom.
My prayer is that when my time on earth is done, I will not only have succeeded professionally or materially, but that I will have faithfully completed the assignment God gave me.
What about you?
What territory has God called you to take that you have been postponing? If God evaluated your life today, what unfinished assignment would still remain? Are you building only a career, or are you building the Kingdom too?
I genuinely pray that God helps us with this. And I pray that we all start to feel this sense of urgency in whatever He has called us to do.
Thank you for reading through, and may God continually bless you!
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