Resolved

I watched a feature on Songs Of Praise yesterday of this elderly female missionary who went out and worked her whole life in Africa. One of the comments she made that really struck me was that when you get old and look back, the only thing that really counts is your works of service to God. It must be very pleasing to reach a certain age and know, "I have not waisted my life".

"Resolved, that I will live so as I shall wish I had done when I come to die ... Resloved, to endeavor to my utmost to act as I can think I should do, if, I had already seen the happiness of heaven, and hell's torments."
Jonathan Edwards (1703 – 1758), written in his early twenties.