“I’ve decided to live 120 years,” is the title of the book.
I saw the book at The Earth Citizens Wellness Centre in Kerikeri not long ago. I’ve not read the book (I did not want to buy the book and the two copies at the Kerikeri Library were on loan), but I am a reader of the Bible and I love the Bible.
The Bible, “The Book of Books”.
At the present time I am reading the book of Proverbs in the Bible. And please listen to what it says there. So far I’ve only read until chapter ten, but I found already a good number of verses that tell me how to live a long life:
- In Proverbs 3:2 it says that keeping the commands of the LORD will not only bring us prosperity but will also prolong our life.
- Proverbs 3:8 tells us that fearing the LORD and shunning evil will bring health to our body and nourishment to our bones.
- Proverbs 3:16 says that long life is in the right hand of wisdom and that riches and honor are in her left hand.
- Wisdom says in Proverbs 4:10, “Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will be many.
- And in Proverb 9:11 we read that through wisdom not only our days will be many, but that years will be added to our life.
- Proverbs 10:27 teaches “the fear of the LORD adds length to life, and that the years of the wicked are cut short.”
But that is not all. There is more.
In the New Testament, in John 3:14,15, the Lord says to Nicodemus, “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”
I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and I know that I have eternal life.
And I have not decided to live forever. (I am a dependent being. I am dependent on God.) It was decided for me before the foundation of the world.
In Ephesians 1:4 it says, “For he [God] chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.” (And let us remember again that the letters in the New Testament are only written to true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ.)