Senior Living

Ihave used this phrase for years. It has been true in my own life. It’s probably true for you as well.

In the final analysis, we choose the books we read, the movies we watch, the hobbies we pursue, the service projects we volunteer for, the food we eat because something in us caused us to want these things.

As senior adults, these are things we wish we would have done – the instruments we never mastered, the sports we never played well, the physical fitness we never achieved, the foreign language we never learned. Our “want-to” just wasn’t strong enough.

What do you want to do?

Herein lies what I believe is the key to living the best life possible: Don’t live the way you want to, live the way that God wants you to.

Exchange your “want to” for God’s “want to” for your life. He really does have a plan for your life. This is not an easy choice because our natural way of thinking dictates that we will live the way we want to live. We strive for that sense of independence with a “nobody’s-going-to-tellme-what-to-do” attitude.

But Jesus teaches something very un-natural for us: “Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.

Jesus also said, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me.”

Paul put it simply: “I die daily.”

What? If I lose my life for Christ, deny myself, and die every day I will live the best life possible? That is the amazing paradoxical mystery of the secret to successful living.

Yes, you will do what you want to do. But will you do what God wants you to do?

If you honestly seek Him, even as a senior adult, you will discover His “want to” for the rest of your life.