Dying at the right time….

This is a post aimed solely at Christians and, of those who call themselves such, to those who accept the bible implicitly as God’s inerrant and trusted Word and take Him at it without trying to make Him comply with our viewpoint.

I want to explore this concept of health and death from the point of view that you will often hear people stating that if you do x, y or z you will “extend your life” or conversely that if you do certain things wrong you will die young or sooner than society would deem “acceptable” which probably means any age before 90!  Now, apart from the fact that we all know many people who don’t fit either camp such as the baby who dies before they’ve even started their life, or the rampant alcoholic who manages to live well into their 70s despite doing everything to “die young” in the eyes of those around them, my contention is that we can do nothing to extend or shorten our lives in that God has determined the length of our days before He granted us life:

Psa 139:16: You saw me before I was born. The days allotted to me had all been recorded in your book, before any of them ever began.