The Tribune

By ALLISON MILLER MANY people I know believe in untimely death. They believe that God promised us three score and ten years which adds up to 70 years. I believe that when an individual succumbs to their demise it was their time to die. For whatever reason that life mission was accomplished. How can I come to this conclusion you may ask? When we witness a near death situation, where the person makes a full recovery, it is my belief that their life purpose was not fulfilled. I am not validating the Russian Roulette some of us play with our lives. God gave us free will and we have to choose his plan for our lives. The fact that some of us are alive when we thought we would have been dead is a testament to the divine plan God has for our lives. Even when we create battle fields of our own making, God's purpose preserves our lives. You know those "missed by the skin of ya teeth" moments? We get by because God has a plan. We owe it to ourselves to find out what it is and to do it. The bible tells us only what is done for Christ will last. When I think of all the close calls I have had, how enemies tried to take me out on my 16th birthday, I thank God for his plan and purpose for my life. I am preserved because of it. Have you ever seen a seriously tragic automobile accident, where they had to use the jaws of life get the person out of the vehicle and that person walked away with not even a scratch on them? Or a person who for all of their teenage life and most of their adult life was troublesome and delinquent, and one day they change in a way you would never have expected? My thoughts are that God kept these people because the purpose and plans of God had not been fulfilled in their life. The bible says that anything that God keeps is well kept.