James told us that life is a vapor (James 4:14)…the shortness and brevity of life should spur us on to see our days, our hours, our minutes as precious and to be lived for something much bigger than one little life can accomplish. 

It’s sobering to realize you’re in the second half of your life. Obviously, we all have zero idea when our time to depart this life will come. But if you statistically look at your age compared to the average lifespan, once you reach that median point, you know you are at least in the second half of your life.

And that’s where I find myself.

Sure, I’ve been in that second half for awhile now, but from time-to-time, it’ll catch my attention bringing with it a flood of thoughts. It’s like that mid-life crisis you hear about, but I’m hoping my thoughts and actions are more sanctified than what you’d expect from that term. There are no Harleys parked in my garage. Neither will you find a new look in my wardrobe such as emo black leather or worse. So, at least there’s that.

However, I have been thinking a lot about this next stage of my life in light of the Kingdom of God. With my remaining days, how can my life be spent for the gospel?

It’s not as if I feel the earlier days of my life were a waste. The Lord is sovereign and ordained them how He did, and I tried to be as faithful to Him and lean on Him each day.

However, in this season of my life, stories like Through Gates of Splendor—as I’ve written on before—kick off these thoughts. Also, the Lord allowing me to minister to young adults inevitably finds me trying to encourage them to live out their young lives for Christ. Even today I found another source of inspiration: twenty one pilots.

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