I Want to Live Long to Sing a Glorious Song

Daily writing promptWhat are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?View all responses

I want to live long to help overcome the influence of mean screen scenes:

Too often our screens
Overflow with scenes
Of hostility
That shouldn’t be seen.
And we wonder how
Our society
Can be so mean
And violent.

No matter how long
My life may last
It will eventually
Be in the past.
I want to live long
So I can boldly sing
Christ’s glorious song
And bring more people along
So they can joyfully
And triumphantly
Sing His song
When I am gone
And keep passing it on.

There’s an inner battle going on in every person and in every country in the world. The outcome of those battles matters greatly. I’ve spent my life training to fight and win the battles within me and to be an influencer to help other people fight and win their inner battles.

I want to stick around on planet earth as long as I can so that I can use my training to help other people win their inner battles so that together we can change society. This requires the inner weapons of self-control, thought discipline, hope revelation, encouragement, courage, persistence, faith, prayer, and ongoing surrender to and obedience to the risen Jesus Christ.

Society is continually trying to influence, persuade, manipulate, seduce, deceive, entrap, and control people, but Christians are supposed to be led by God’s Spirit. We are supposed to influence people to live Christ-like lives and not be influenced to follow the human desires promoted by society. Be God’s Christ-like influencer, not society’s mental and spiritual puppet.

I want to live long enough to see Christians embrace and live out a fuller definition of prayer so that they can lovingly heal the hurts and rebellion in the world. Prayer is the spiritual hunger and thirst that leads to heart-to-heart connection with the living God and produces passionate, fervent, loving, and ongoing two-way communication with Him and a lifestyle of obeying “Christ in you” and of being continually led by the Spirit. It can’t be taught by a teaching but must be caught and grown through submission to divine revelation.