We get four score and ten if we're lucky.  One life.  We sometimes fill it up with trivia.  We pursue silly things.  We seldom think about the days that are trickling away.  We take it for granted that there will be more days--until one day we realize that most of them are behind us, not in front of us.

We go to school.  Maybe college.  We get a job.  We marry.  Some of us have children--who grow up and leave home and have children of their own.  And then, and then...if we are lucky, we have more years with a spouse we love.  Even better if our spouse is our best friend.  Mine was.

Life is a circle of stages we go through.   It is tragic when people wake up and find that they have missed their own lives.  When they have been so involved in work, or play, or silly things, that they have not fulfilled God's purpose for their lives.

"And you shall teach them (God's laws) to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up." Deuteronomy 11:19

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Prov. 22:6  That is a verse that involves everyone, not just parents.  If you never had children, God still wants you to bless the children around you.  Some of the most influential mentors I had didn't have children of their own.  But they didn't let that stop them from helping children that came to their churches.  Look around you.  There are children all around us who need someone to help, or notice them.

Christianity is not hereditary.  It has to be passed on by Christian people.  The gospel is a story about God that we must share.  When I was buying my phone last week, the girl helping me said something that led me to think that she might be a Christian.  I asked her if she was, and said, "I don't intend to hit you over the head with a Bible."

She answered, "I don't know why you wouldn't.  You have the greatest message ever told and we all need to tell it."  So very true.  Why do we hesitate?  The world needs to hear the story of Christ.