Sunday, February 25, 2024

MoneyWalk 239 The Way To Retire

This program will help you undo financial bondage. 

You've been doing the same type of work for many years and you can hardly wait for retirement. Throughout your career you've only taken short vacations when you wanted to relieve stress, but now you want a lot longer than the vacation time allotted to you because you can feel a restlessness and possibly dissatisfaction toward the work, environment, or atmosphere.

Scripture gives numerous lessons on the responsibility to work and its value throughout one’s life. It seems, you'll find only one scriptural situation that speaks of something akin to retirement. The Levites were to retire from being primary workers in the service of the tabernacle, yet it’s suggested they continue to assist their brothers in the service of the tent of meetings. There is no indication that retirement meant that they sit around for the rest of their lives doing nothing, or only living to please themselves.

As a Christian, you have a godly mission to support the spread of the gospel through evangelism and disciple-making. Christ calls you to be an active participant in this mission, no matter what your age or bodily condition. Christians never retire from serving in the Great Commission even though they may retire from a career path in which they served in this world or move from a long-time ministry they’ve been involved with to another ministry serving in another arena.

What your heart truly longs for is not a time of doing nothing or seeking only personal pleasure. Rather, it’s longing leads you toward another area of service that God created and equipped you to do. It could be wholly different than the arena you’re leaving or it could piggyback on the skills, platform, or network you had in prior years. Talking and listening to the LORD and following His heart will determine the service (work) you should engage in this refirement period. Service may be in another arena traditionally considered secular or something that seems more spiritual. Remember, whatever legitimate service you do pleases Him when you make His will and way the priority of your life and seek to glorify Him through it. 

Looking forward to God’s plan for your future shouldn’t be feared. Look forward to the adventure and excitement it will bring! It could be wise to take an extended time (months) between the work from which you retire and the area of service you will engage in the future. Just make sure it’s not so long that you fall into slothfulness and personal pleasure seeking because this will bring unfruitfulness and ruin into your life. When you retire with God’s will in mind, you’ll be able to have peace, joy, and needed rest in a way that refires you and brings fulfillment to your life.

Genesis 1:28, Numbers 8:24-26, Proverbs 10:4-5, Acts 20:32-35, 2Thessalonians 3:6-12

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