It matters not how long we live, but how. Bailey

We are sometimes way too concerned with our health to enjoy life. Too often, we fear that we will come down with some dreaded disease that will cut our life short. So we exercise and read up on healthy lifestyles and visit our doctors on a regular basis - all good things to be sure - but if it is long life only for the sake of long life that we seek, then we are wasting our time. It's what we do with our time that counts, not the amount.

There are far too many people who are so concerned with having good health in order to enjoy life, that they simply forget to. They spend hours on calorie counters and exercise programs and the latest diet craze. They obsess over their blood pressure and their blood sugars and even the thickness of their blood, but they forget to live in a way that actually stirs the blood.

They read the doctor's columns in the newspapers, and listen with rapt attention to the physicians on the radio and television, just to find out if they might possess some symptom that will foreshadow their sure and impending doom. But they forget to turn to the Great Physician's Book of Life to find out how to really live. Now don't get me wrong, there is nothing improper with seeking good physical health (it is both reasonable and prudent) it's just that it's not the main thing.

The fact is that this physical life is just the beginning (not the sum total) of our existence. We are eternal beings created by a loving Father for an abundant life, not temporal creatures with a few skimpy years of uncertain duration. When our lives are properly viewed through a spiritual lens, we realize that we are not getting one day older. It is the spirit that your physical body houses that makes you, you, so why not concentrate on the quality of your years here, rather than the quantity? Christ came that we might have an abundant life, so why not enjoy it to the fullest? Such a life of abundance begins by living for Him! If we will spend our life in His service, He will give us all the time we need here. And then, eternity!

I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. Jesus 

John 10:10, NKJV