Retirement

I spent the week at Source of Light headquarters doing some training. I think the average age of the workers at SOL is in the 70's. In fact, I think there are only 2 or 3 people at SOL who are under 50. If someone had blindfolded me and walked me into the building I would have sworn it was a retirement home!

At first, it was kind of weird hanging out with a bunch of people in their 70's but after spending time with them I was blown away. I think there is this nagging in the back of minds of people my age about retirement. When will I be able to retire? Will I have enough money to retire? Will I spend my retirement eating mac and cheese and Ramon noodles? What I discovered about these people was that instead of sitting around on their porch drinking sweet tea all day, they choose to use their "retirement years" serving God! They are all volunteers who spend their days printing and preparing bible study materials that are sent all over the world. Because of their efforts, hundreds of thousands of people have come to know Christ and countless more are being discipled!

It has really challenged my view of retirement. Though I haven't studied it, I'm pretty sure retirement wasn't God's idea. So maybe there will come a day when I won't have a vocational job, but I hope I always have a kingdom job.

I think it'd be pretty cool to be in the middle of doing kingdom work when God calls me home. What better way to meet the "Boss" than while on the job.