WHY NO ONE SHOULD RETIRE!
Talking about tips to self-fulfillment, it is essential that we lay the foundation of self-fulfillment as we did yesterday. Another aspect of self-fulfillment that I want to talk about is that God in his wisdom has decided to make us in his image and likeness. As God’s image and likeness, we are to operate on the earth to some extent like God himself. Our God is an infinite God, meaning that He is everlasting. He doesn’t go on retirement.
Ladies and gentlemen, let’s talk on that for a moment. It is understandable why God would not go on retirement because he doesn’t get tired. He doesn’t have a body so he doesn’t need rest. He doesn’t get old so he doesn’t need vacation. But how could all that relate to us who are mere mortals, who get tired, who get older by the day? Don’t we need retirement? That is an aspect of God that we all could actually explore.
Yes, God showed us that on earth while we are operating the laws of nature, those laws must still be observed. God himself showed us the example by taking a day out to rest on the seventh day of creation. That should tell us that God recognizes the need for men to recuperate through rest, vacation and indeed retirement. When it comes to retirement however, I think retirement from an occupation or a government job is totally different from retirement from work all together. A careful look at the heroes of the Bible tells us that they do not recognize retirement as we do today.
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.’ -Robert Louis Stevenson
Abraham who was a friend of God, could not be said to have retired per se. Retirement for the heroes of the Bible comes mainly as eternal rest. In that way, a person keeps on evolving all throughout his life on earth. That means, I and you could actually keep on fulfilling ourselves till we leave this earth. If we were to retire from all forms of work, then we would be retiring from the process of fulfillment. Fulfillment and creativity, are supposed to be continuous in every person’s life as along as he or she is alive.
What I am trying to say is that, we need to think of fulfillment in terms of a life time project. We are bigger than what we are, we are greater than we are right now. Meaning that greatness could keep on manifesting itself in us as long as we are alive. We are greater than what we have done. That tells us also that no matter what we have done as long as we have breath in our nose, we could still keep doing even greater and greater things. Fulfillment is a life time project. That is why the heroes of the Bible did not retire from fulfillment.
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” –Confucius
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, CHURCH AND NATION
By Pastor Sunday Adelaja.
