No Sanity Required
No Sanity Required is a weekly podcast hosted by Brody Holloway and Snowbird Outfitters. Each week, we engage culture and personal stories with a Gospel-driven perspective. Our mission is to equip the Church to pierce the darkness with the light of Christ by sharing the vision, ideas, and passions God has used to carry us through 26 years of student ministry. Find more content at swoutfitters.com.
No Sanity Required
Start Strong, Run Hard, Finish Well | Finishing Faithfully
What if growing older wasn’t about slowing down, but stepping up in bold faith? In this final episode of Start Strong, Run Hard, Finish Well, we draw inspiration from Caleb in Joshua 14—who at 85 was still ready to take on giants, trusting God fully.
Brody challenges the idea that aging means retreat and explores how to finish life with purpose, gratitude, and courage—no matter your age. Whether you're 25 or 85, you'll find practical wisdom for living with intention, building intergenerational community, rejecting comfort as your goal, and staying focused on the race God has set before you.
If you're still here, God’s not done with you yet.
Keep running. Finish strong. Hear “Well done.”
Joshua 14
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Hey, welcome to a special episode, special edition of no Sanity Required. In this short episode I'm going to finish up a series I started actually now quite a while back. It was early in the summer and it was going to be a three-part series and then it kind of stretched into possibly a four-part. But anyway, I want to finish it up, the series we were calling it. I want to finish it up the series we were calling it Start Strong, run Hard, finish Well.
Speaker 1:And we had a couple episodes where we talked about what it looks like to to enter into adulthood or to start strong in your faith, whether you're a 15 year old or a 40 year old and you're a new believer. What's it look like to to start strong and then run hard? Where we talked primarily about the 20s, 30s and 40s For some of us. Maybe that would also include the 50s For some of us that are late. You know we were late to the parenting game or we're still in the prime of building a business or a ministry and don't have plans of retiring. You know some career paths you retire after 25 years and if you start at 22, you know that's that's pretty early. Uh, even like military retirement, I think can be earlier than that 20 years, and you can retire If you go in at 18, I've got good friends that retired at 38. So you know this is I don't want to nail ages to this, but for me I'm in my 50s and I do not have any intentions of retiring from what I'm doing I feel like I'm in my prime. If God gives me mental and physical health, I don't want to stop doing this. I feel like we've just hit a gear at SWO. That is just phenomenal. The scope and impact that we're having that's, that's meaningful depth of impact. Um, so I, I'm, I'm hoping that God gives me the health to do this for a long, long time to come.
Speaker 1:And so whether I'm beginning the process of finishing well now, or that's something that's going to come later, uh, for some of our listeners you're in your seventies, eighties. I don't think we have any listeners in their 90s, but I know we have listeners in their 80s and a lot in their 70s and a ton in their 50s and 60s. So, um, but then you know, I'll rate, I'll ask for a hand raising at a slow event and there'll be 600 teenagers in the room and how many of us in nsr and it's crazy, couple hundred people raise their hands sometimes. So we're all over. We really try to target every age group and as we shift towards the school year and the fall, jb will be back on here. Her summer responsibilities were just so heavy that she couldn't we weren't able to have her on a lot this summer, but she'll be back on with me a lot going into the fall, and so what I want to do is just wrap up this.
Speaker 1:Start strong, run hard, finish well series. We're going to talk about finishing well. For some people, they finish their race at 40. For some people, they finish their race at 80. For some people, they live to see a hundred. Whatever that looks like, you have to start today finishing well because, you don't know, you're not promised tomorrow. So, um, let's, let's get into this. I hope it'll be an encouragement to you.
Speaker 2:Welcome to no sanity required welcome to no sanity required from the ministry of snowbird wilderness outfitters. A podcast about the bible culture and stories from around the globe.
Speaker 1:Okay, in this bonus episode, an extra episode this week, which I feel like I owe it to you because we had a short episode there the other day I want to talk about what it looks like to finish well. Right before the intro there, I made a comment. I said let's start today to finish well, and that comes from the fact that we don't know when our last breath is going to be drawn. We don't know our last day on earth. It was crazy a couple of weeks ago where, in one week's time, uh, ozzy Osbourne died, hulk Hogan died and John MacArthur died. What a crazy contrast of personalities and characters. Characters, but all of them professed to have a relationship with god. Now I I don't know about ozzy osbourne, but I heard hulk hogan talk about.
Speaker 1:You know, probably some of y'all saw a lot of videos got put online from his baptism and him giving a testimony to putting his faith in the lord, putting his faith in jesus. Pretty cool, I think. That man gave his life to Christ and he finished his race. His race was short, wasn't it? I mean that guy got saved at 69 or 70, died at 71, but he ran his race and I don't know when you started your race, but we all have the opportunity to run our race well, starting today, regardless of how we've run it up until this point. So you know, maybe to this point your race has been wobbly. You know you've been running it on wobbly legs. But, man, you can put your head down and put your nose to the grindstone, put your hand to the plow and get after it for the kingdom of God, for the sake of the church, for the glory of Christ and for the hope of the future and for your own holiness. Man, quit worrying about your 401K and how much money you've got and if you're going to be able to retire, just knock it off. Just knock that off, just quit. Just quit worrying about that. I can tell you right now I don't worry about that. I do not, and I don't say that. I do not say that in a way that I'm bragging about something. I'm not saying it that way. I'm saying there's a lot of things I do very poorly, but I can tell you right now, when it comes to worrying if I'm going to have enough money to go on cruises and vacations and to live in a really nice, I don't care, I don't give a rat's rear end if the last 20 years of my life are spent living uh, and where I started my life as an adult?
Speaker 1:Little, when I started out living our lives, uh, together as a married couple, in in the hayloft of a barn, literally. And I'm not talking about a barn converted to a barn dominium, I'm talking about we lived in a barn, like. We moved about 200 square bales of hay that we had baled and put in that barn loft and we moved it over and made a spot to sleep, plugged in a mini fridge and lived in a barn. And it was crazy because in the mornings I'd be out feeding livestock. I'd go out earlier than little. I'd be out there feeding livestock and we were working at at, you know, the camp that we worked at, the master's in in Virginia and it was a kind of a dude ranch kind of feel to it and we lived in the barn and I'd be out there saddling horses, feeding, feeding, doing the morning feeding and then saddling horses getting started for the day's trail rides or whatever we were doing and and we did these breakfast chuck wagon rides and I'd hear little shoot. I'd hear 22 pop pop. It should be wake up, roll out of the bed and be looking through the cracks in the in the feed being under her on the on the first floor of the barn, and she'd be shooting rats through the, you know, through the cracks in the floor and uh. And so that's how we started it.
Speaker 1:And y'all know, when we got to SWO and we started SWO, we lived for those first three years and her grandparents old, old summer fishing shack. You know it was like a fishing camping cabin with no amenities, no running water, no bathroom. It was an outhouse, not a porta potty, an outhouse, a hole in the ground dug with a wood shack sitting over it and it was a double seater. You want to get close and intimate with somebody. Me and my brother, me and one of my cousins would be out there doing what we call the tandem business. You know, I mean it's the middle of the winter and it's 20 degrees outside and y'all know 20 degrees in these humid mountains we live in a temperate rainforest 20 degrees here feels like zero degrees in Minnesota. That's just a fact. I've been in zero degrees in the Dakotas and 20 degrees here is to to me hurts more, and so that's how we were living. Man, we did that for three years when we started SWO.
Speaker 1:And so just saying all that to say I don't care if I finish that way. Now I'm sure if I live into my 70s and 80s, if I make it, I'm probably going to need a little more creature comfort, but I'm fine if I don't. I'm probably going to need a little more creature comfort, but, but I'm fine if I don't. And uh, and so I what I want to get at is quit worrying about is my house. If I invested enough money in this, am I going to be able to have enough to finish well in terms of financial stability? And it's like man, the Lord will take you.
Speaker 1:The bottom line is I'm not saying you shouldn't be a good steward of what God's given you, I'm saying you shouldn't worry about it. So the first step in finishing well is quit worrying about it. Quit worrying about if you're going to get Alzheimer's or if you're going to get cancer, or if you're going to have enough money in the bank to finish to finish this thing out. Quit worrying about it. Well, I retired from my job, but now what am I supposed to do and what's going to come next and how I'm going to have meaningful life? Quit worrying about it quit, don't like. At no point.
Speaker 1:The Bible doesn't teach us not to worry. It doesn't say be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, let your requests be made known to God, unless you're over 65. And then, well then, you can be anxious. It doesn't say that. And so I want to look at um and and listen. For some of you who are 40, this is for you. For some of you who are 30, this is for you. Don't worry, don't fret, don't sweat, just work as long as you can labor, fight as long as you can fight.
Speaker 1:I want to read you a story from Joshua, chapter 14. This is about Caleb. It says A delegation from the tribe of Judah, led by Caleb, son of Jephunneh the Kenizzot, came to Joshua at Gilgal. Now, this guy, caleb, was uh was the son of a Kenizzat, which you can go do your own research on that, but he was not an inside man. In other words, caleb said to Joshua remember what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, about you and me when we were at Kadesh Barnea. I was 40 years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land of Canaan. I returned and gave an honest report, but my brothers who went with me frightened the people from entering the promised land. For my part, I wholeheartedly followed the Lord, my God. So that day, moses solemnly promised me, the land of Canaan on which you were just walking will be your grant of land and that that of your descendants, forever, because you wholeheartedly followed the Lord, my God.
Speaker 1:So, context this story's taken place when Caleb is 85 years old, and he references back to something that happened 45 years earlier, when he was 40 years old, and he was one of a dozen spies that were sent into Canaan to spy the land out. These spies were they were a contingency of men that were hand selected, one from each tribe. If I remember right and he's got, this was at a time when Israel as a nation had been delivered from slavery. They were a nation of slaves locked up under Egyptian rule and dominion, and God had led a great and powerful victory over the Egyptians, and so he delivered his people out of slavery and they escaped it. And God did all these crazy miracles to deliver them from slavery, and they get right to the point where now all they got to do is cross the Jordan River and enter into the land that God has promised them will be their own land.
Speaker 1:But to get there they got to root out the people in the land, they got to fight battles and win battles, and if they'll do that, god will use those battles to make them stronger. In other words, God ain't going to just hand it to them. He's going to make them work for it a little bit, but at the end of the day they can't go. Well, we earned this, they say. Oh no, god's grace and favor is that he gave it to us, but he used us. He used our gifts and strengths and he blessed our courage. And it's an important principle for Christians, for Christ followers, that God is sovereignly in control of your life. But he's going to call you into the work and he's going to give you tasks to do, and and stewardship of your resources. And and. So Caleb had been a good steward. He was bold, he was courageous. He's like let's go. Let's go take the land that God's given us. We're going to have to fight for it, but he'll be with us and we'll get it.
Speaker 1:And then the people turned on Caleb. Caleb and Joshua were the two men that said let's go take what's rightfully ours, as appointed to us by God. And so that was his goal. And the people turned on him and they said that like they almost killed him. And so, as a result, god punished the people of Israel and said, hey, this generation, everybody over the age of 40 or 20, whatever it was everybody that's an adult is going to is going to die out here in the wilderness. And so for the next four decades they just drifted and wandered in the wilderness. God fed them and gave them food and took care of them, but it was just kind of, they're just there. They didn't enter into what God had had had promised them and was going to give them. Then they had to miss out on the blessings of God because they weren't willing to fight for it, and God allowed Caleb and Joshua to live and to get to go into the promised land. They were the only two in that generation that didn't die in the wilderness.
Speaker 1:And so now you know, but Caleb wanted to go fight as a 40-year-old which, like I mean to be honest, 40, you're not a spring chicken. There's not many 40-year-old Like. Right now the world heavyweight boxing champ is Oleksandr Usyk, who's a Ukrainian boxer. That dude's 38, and people are talking about just how crazy it is that he's 38 and he's a champion. Or think about when George Foreman won the heavyweight championship in the 90s and he was in his mid 40s, you know. Or I got a buddy that, a friend of mine who spent 24 years with Dev Group, seal Team 6, 24 years and that came on the heels of, I think, eight or nine years with SEAL Team 2. So before he went to Development Group, which is SEAL Team 6, he had already lived a pretty intense life. That guy's my age and spent 30-some years in the Navy and I talked to him about, like, what was it like going on ops when you're 40 and 42 and 43? He said well, it's a lot harder than doing it when you're 30. I can tell you that this dude, caleb, at 40 was ready to go fight. Now he's 80. He's 80.
Speaker 1:And listen to what he just said to Joshua. He said hey, man, remember, god promised Moses and when we were with Moses, god promised us that when I was 40, at the time that I was going to get an inheritance in this land, I followed the Lord to my whole heart when everybody turned against him and turned against us and he said I want to go take what's mine. I want to go fight for what's mine as an 85 year old man. So he says we continue now. As you can see, the Lord has kept me alive and well, as he promised, for all these 45 years since Moses made this promise, even while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Today I'm 85 years old. I'm as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey and I can still travel and fight as well as I could then. So give me the hill country that the Lord promised me. You will remember that as scouts we found the descendants of Anak living there in great walled towns, but if the Lord is with me, I'll drive them out of the land, just as the Lord said.
Speaker 1:What a man of faith. He said hey, I know there's some guys up there. They're a huge race of people. They're physically imposing, they're gigantic, these barbarian Viking type. I don't know how to paint the picture. But how are we going to go fight? He said God will give me victory. I'm 85. I'll go fight these suckers. It's just this bold faith to act, to not retire and sit on the porch and stare off at the sunset.
Speaker 1:So Joshua blessed Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and gave Hebron to him as his portion of land. Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb. Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and gave Hebron to him as his portion of land. Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb, son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, because he wholeheartedly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. And then it says and the land had rest from war. It's crazy that this dude now and don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking, I'm not saying you shouldn't sit on the porch and watch sunset, I'm saying Caleb was like Nope, that ain't for me, I'm, I'm.
Speaker 1:I spent 40 years wandering and drifting with everybody else out there in the wilderness and I think with Caleb, you see a late resurgence in life where in his eighties, he wants to make up for lost time and finish. Well, and he's like I want to. I want to fight for what's mine. And I think, as an older person, where you're 50s or 60s, you're still maybe wrestling with some midlife crisis, 50s for sure of what's my purpose. How do I finish? Well, like you know, your career maybe is winding down, but you don't have to retire from life. You might retire from your career as a teacher or a police officer or uh, you know, uh, out of the military, whatever it is, or business owner and you sell your business. You might retire from that, but don't have a retired from life mindset, like, don't, don't go, buy you a place in a retirement community and and play pickleball and and, and that's what you live for every day. Now you can do that. Hear me out, don't hear the spirit of what I'm saying, not the letter of the law here. There's nothing wrong with with living in a retirement community and playing pickleball. I'm not. I'm not creating a system of do's and don'ts here. I'm saying that should not be your purpose every day. That should be your recreation and you should have recreation even as an older person. So when I get up every day, I love. I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1:I love shooting and I enjoy precision shooting where I hand load my ammunition and I will. I will go out maybe three times a week and shoot. And when I go out and shoot, I shoot three to six rounds, typically Um and and at at a two 300 yards and see how small of a group I can make. And that whole process is going to take me a couple hours. The the hand loading, um, that process takes just a few minutes. But then going to the range, setting my stuff up, stretching out, shooting and then putting my stuff up, come back to the house. Or if I'm going to train with my handgun, maybe I fire 250 rounds and that whole thing takes me an hour.
Speaker 1:To go out and train. It's not a lot of time. What I'm getting at is I love doing that. It's a good's, not a lot of time. What I'm getting at is I love doing that. It's a good escape for me. But that is. That escape is there to help me jump right back into doing things that really matter, like like loving people. Well, thinking about how we can advance the gospel, writing a letter to a missionary or texting them, or sending them Marco Polo, meeting with someone from my church or my community for lunch and trying to encourage them, praying for people studying the scripture. So what I'm getting at is don't live for recreation. Let recreation fuel your, give you extra energy to do the things that really matter.
Speaker 1:So let me run through the bullet point list here in finishing. Well, so we start by. I just gave you the intro there. That's the first principle, that's the first idea. All right.
Speaker 1:Next, remember and rejoice. Remember and rejoice. What do I mean by that? Well, there is. Let me grab my Bible in Ecclesiastes, chapter 11 and verse 8. Give me a second. I should have already had this. Ecclesiastes 11, 8, it says so if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all, but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. So remember what God has done. Rejoice in the good times, reflect even on the bad times. Look back and take it all in. Next, remember this that Thanksgiving produces joy. We tend to remember and become sad, but remember the goodness of the Lord and give thanks.
Speaker 1:If you can be a person that expresses thanksgiving to the Lord daily, god will use that to grow you, stretch you, fulfill and satisfy you. As a 75-year-old, 85-year-old man or woman, you could experience the satisfaction that the Lord provides every day. Next, I say this If you're still here, the Lord, he ain't finished with you. He's not finished with you. If you're still here, God's still got something for you to do Every day. He's got something for you to do. So look to Jesus every day. Look to Jesus every day. Look to Jesus every day. Every day, your feet hit the floor. Thank you, lord. There's breath in my lungs, my heart is pulsing, my brain is working, my eyes are, they're bright and I can see, or they're cloudy and I'm struggling and I've got aches and pains and I can't see, but I got breath in my lungs.
Speaker 1:Look to Jesus every day and thank him for another day on planet earth and imagine what can I do with this day? You might be in an assisted living facility, uh, which probably not listening to this, but that day may come. I don't know that anybody that listens to this is living in a place like that now, but that day may come. And when that day comes, there's going to be ministry opportunity for you to the people in that facility. You know, and you you got to, every day look to Jesus and say how can I, how can I leverage and maximize this day for the Lord? I don't know if you can hear it in the background this microphone does a pretty good job of drowning it out but, um, I, as I'm, as I'm talking, I can hear the Wednesday night girl dance party at week 10 of SWO. It's it's on the other side of the wall from where I'm at and it is so loud. Those kids are going crazy and they're having the time of their lives and I think, man, wouldn't it be awesome to have that level of energy and just lack of inhibition? Well, we're going to have that when we meet the Lord, and the longer you're on the earth, the more you can get excited about the fact that you're going to. You're going to experience health and strength and vitality Like like you've never experienced in this life. We're all going to get that's what. That's what waits for us on the other side. So, um so, look to Jesus and look to what his future plans are. Now here's the next one Don't be fixated on comfort.
Speaker 1:Challenge yourself, contribute to the kingdom, work. Your reward is in heaven. When I say don't be, don't just be fixated on comfort, let me tell you what I'm not talking about. I'm not talking about well, every day I go do CrossFit or I do, I go do my exercises and that's hard. I challenged myself. That ain't no challenge, man. If you got physical, if you got the physical ability to do that, that's just like normal, like every, every, every society in history. People didn't have to do CrossFit because living was one long, ongoing workout. When I say, don't be fixated on comfort, you're not. You're not challenging yourself. If you get up and do an hour workout once a day but then you relax for six of your evening hours, you know, watching your shows and putting your feet up.
Speaker 1:And I'm saying get up and go do something, man. Go do something that contributes to the kingdom. Go find an elderly person that can't help their self and serve them and work for them. Go support a foster family and help them out. Like go talk to your pastor or the person in charge of discipleship or local ministry or missions at your church and say put me to work, what can I do? There's plenty to be done. And so get uncomfortable, go on a mission trip.
Speaker 1:I mean, how many of you listen to the sound of my voice have never not one time, much less once a year, every couple of years gone to a third world country? And I don't mean done fun, facebook worthy, instagram posting worthy. I mean it's like we live in this society where everything's got to get posted on Instagram. I need everybody to listen to me so and look at me, or Facebook. And so what I'm talking about is go right now, start planning. We're going to go to East Africa, to the West Nile region, or we're going to go to a really rough part of Central America and we're going to work with people and we're not going to take pictures of it and post it on Facebook. We're going to just serve and labor for a prize that doesn't tarnish, perish or fade, and just go minister to the least of these.
Speaker 1:Heck. Do it in your town. Figure out who needs that. Figure out what, what opportunities they are in your community and contribute to kingdom work. Share. Share the gospel with people. Share the gospel with people. Strike up a friendship with somebody that you think's not a believer and find out if they are or not and if they're not, cultivate a relationship with them and start to minister the love of jesus to them.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm not talking about telling you're a republican who votes pro-life and and like trump is your messiah. I'm not talking about that. That's. I'm sick. I'm that mess man. I'm just sick of it. We have a king. His name is Jesus. We are on a mission. It is not to preserve a democratic republic, it's to win the lost, shine the light into the darkness.
Speaker 1:If Christians would get serious about evangelism, serious about discipleship, and would use and leverage their 40s, 50s, but really their 60s, 70s and into their 80s to do that. There's a man that's going to listen to this and I read a comment from him last week. His name's John. He's a good friend of mine. He's a faithful member at Red Oak Church. He's a supporter of SWO. John is approaching 80, and he and his wife have recruited and brought more people to church than anybody else at our church. They are always on mission. They're trying to win their neighbors, they're trying to reach people in their community and in their sphere of influence, and it's very challenging to me and I love it.
Speaker 1:Next, don't fear death. It's coming for you. It is coming for you. Death is undefeated, except against Jesus. It will come for us all. It is coming for you. Death is undefeated, except against Jesus. It will come for us all. And rejoice again Ecclesiastes 11.8, that you lived as long as you did and just wait for it and die well, die well. It's a blessing to die well, finishing well. We can't talk about finishing well if we don't talk about dying well, and for some of you it's going to be a long, hard, brutal death of cancer or Alzheimer's or whatever it is. But listen, whatever you endure in this life, what waits on the other side is glorious, and Paul says in Romans 8, 18, I consider the suffering of this present life but this present time not worth comparing to the glory that's to be revealed in Christ Jesus. And so death will give way to the ultimate reality and the ultimate blessing no more sickness, no more sorrow, glorified existence. It's going to be awesome.
Speaker 1:Next, be gospel driven. Be on mission every day. Let the gospel drive what you do. Enjoy the simple things. Enjoy the simple things in life the sunshine, the sunrise, a good meal, a day of recreation, a visit with grandkids or great grandkids, or just your, your son and daughter, son or daughter, like. Enjoy going and watching a ball game, or you're going to a movie, going to watch your, you know, going with a friend or your spouse and watching a movie. Just enjoy the simple things. Enjoy the taste of sweet tea or red meat or your favorite fruit, the sweetness of watermelon in the summer. Savor it and be thankful for it, which, by the way, put salt on it. That's what we Southerners do, but enjoy it.
Speaker 1:Next, this is big, and I said this on the first two episodes of this Don't complain, don't whine, don't be a baby. Don't complain, don't whine, don't be a baby. Don't be a wuss, don't be a sissy. Just because you're 75 years old and your backbone hurts and your knees are replaced and you have a hard time getting out of bed, don't complain. Nobody wants to listen to you whine. God's giving you breath and I know it hurts and I know it's hard to get old and I hate it for you and I'm right behind you. But don't whine. If you're, if you're a person who's prone to negativity, attack that every single day, every single day. And then here's a warning You're never too old to fall into sin, but you're also never too old to receive forgiveness and restoration. So trust the Lord to provide that for you. Lean into his grace if you've made mistakes and you faltered and failed. Have the lion's mindset of Caleb and say I'm going to finish well and when I mess up, I'm going to lean into God's grace.
Speaker 1:I think the conclusion of this whole series would be as older people, we can invest in younger people, but we can also learn from them. Young people need to look to and learn from older people. Everybody on this list can look to someone older and can invest in someone younger, and maybe you know you might be on the higher end of the scale, might not be anybody older than you that you can really look to, but invest in younger people, speak, speak into their lives. Let's be a let. Let let the church of Jesus Christ be a church that's full of people who love one another and invest in one another, regardless of age.
Speaker 1:Old people, the young people, have an energy that we can, we can draw from. I'm around them all the time and I'm grateful for it, and it motivates and encourages me. Young people, old people, know a whole lot more than you think we do. We've lived a whole lot of life and we've got something we can offer you. So open your heart and your mind and ask what you might learn from an older saint, an older brother or sister in Christ, because there's something you can learn, I promise you. And so let's encourage one another, learn from one another and be in this thing together as God's sons and daughters on mission to run our race well and to finish our race well.
Speaker 1:And again, please don't tune this out and go. Oh, that's good, I'll send that to my granddad. No, it's for all of us. We don't know when we're going to die. We don't know our last day on earth. We to my granddad. No, it's for all of us. We don't know when we're going to die. We don't know our last day on earth. We don't know when we're going to finish our race.
Speaker 1:I've in, in 31 years of doing this, and 28 of them being at SWO man I've I've been to a lot of teenage funerals, a lot of funerals of young men and women in their twenties babies I've. I've stood over the casket and led the funeral message, trying to speak hope to a family who had lost a child, a baby, a toddler, a teenager. I've done that more times than I care to think about and remember. But the thing is, death can come for us at any time. So, regardless of whether you're right now starting or you're in the thick of life, you're in your 30s or 40s, 20s, 30s, 40s, or you're winding down your career and thinking about how am I going to close this stuff out? How am I going to finish this Like run hard, start strong, run hard and then finish well.
Speaker 1:But here's the thing You've always got to be ready to finish well, because you don't know when you're going to finish. If you're into your 70s, then you are finishing. You might be here 20 more years, but you're finishing, so you can strategically begin to finish well, but for those of us that are not there yet, we just don't know when that day is going to come. Let's be ready to face Jesus with a smile on our face and a fist triumphant raised in the air, to say we did it for your glory, lord, and to hear him say well done, enter into your rest, receive your reward. Uh, it's going to be awesome. Love you guys. Uh, hope you uh are blessed today, the day that you're listening to this. I pray that God's blessing is on you and uh hope you've enjoyed having this bonus episode this week. Talk to you soon.
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