God's retirement plan?

The War on Children

Dear Friends,

Does God have a retirement plan for His people? Is it His will that we seek a life of ease and comfort this side of eternity?

Didn’t Jesus mention a few rich men (somewhere in Luke’s account of His life) who tried that, and didn’t fair well in the end?

It may just be my personal opinion (I trow not), but I don’t think there’s a retirement plan from service to God as long as we’re on this earth. (I’m just offering a reality check.)

I do, however, think there’s a great reward plan afterward, for continued service to Him as long as we’re here (which really isn’t very long).

Consider Simeon and Anna in Luke 2:21-38. Both were elderly, and served God with fastings and prayers right up to the end. Consider what great encouragement and confirmation they were to Mary and Joseph, by being so in tune with God.

Moreover, consider what lengths God Himself went to, to bring salvation to all who would believe in, trust and obey Him. To say the least, life was not easy in the first century, particularly for innocent victims of crucifixion. It’s enough to make a grown man cry, to “see” such an innocent, righteous, holy Man suffer so.

And that’s the whole point!!! God, in Christ, came to draw us into sympathy and harmony with Himself. His apostle wrote: “Let this mind be IN YOU.”

What mind? Read below.

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Php 5:6-11)

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I want to make a transition here, but I’m not sure how.

Let me just put it this way. We still have the same opportunities Christ had—to call out sin, and to suffer for doing so. (And in that suffering, to be pleasing to God.)

If you have no where else to look for sin to call out, I ask you to consider looking at this very troubling documentary about The War on our Children:

It’s free to watch until “noon” on Monday (not sure which noon—pacific, central, mountain, etc).

Our own Megan Hunt gets coverage between 1:28:00-1:30:00 on the timeline.

For that reason, I sent the video to every member of our Legislature, with the following subject line:

Subject: The War on Children, starring Megan Hunt

Friends,

The excellent two hour documentary, The War on Children, starring Megan Hunt (at around 1:28:00-1:30:00 on the timeline), is free for watching until noon on Monday:

https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1758905251254374896?s=20

Robert

I hope she gets lots of unexpected attention from the email. I sent it to her, and blind copied every other legislator.

If you wish to watch the documentary, click on the image or the link in the email.

I don’t know how God’s going to turn this around, or if He’s even going to try. (There comes a time when the iniquity of the “Amorites” is full, and all that is left is judgment.)

But mine is not to know how or if. Mine, and yours, is to pray, trust and obey.

”Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us” (Eph 3:20)

We need an army of prayers and speakers, who will let the power of God work in them.

Your humble servant in Christ,

Robert