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It’s a strange set of affairs, I like to walk and explore nature in the fine places in Scotland that keep me young. I’m a bit overweight but healthy and full of the joie de vivre.

But, just over a year ago I went through a series of medical tests and at the conclusion I was invited in for the results. Unwelcome news, cells that have served me faithfully turned rogue and caused a rebellion in the prostate, pancreas, and liver.

The consultant looked puzzled and said, “Your very bravado about this?”

“Oh, I have the full implications on all of this,” I replied, “But there’s a young man inside me who was walked with me all my life, his age I’m not sure of, but he has had the same experiences as me and he never changes.” I replied.

I ask you, the reader and I’m sure you know, but you have that younger person with you all your life and this person becomes more prominent as you get older. Can I tell you about my take on this?

Centuries ago, a wise man wrote the following,

“ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.”

Those words are from Ecclesiastes 3:11 from The Voice Bible and the speaker was wise King Solomon; a wisdom he received from God as a gift for faithfulness as a boy.

There are many theories out there I’m sure were the wise of this age speculate why I have a young man in my head and why eternity lives within, but no one, absolutely no one has any scientific evidence for why we have a rich inner lives dancing in our brains. Sure, they have unzipped the skull countless times, and they put it in jars and slice it like spam and study it under all their microscopic kits, but they only have theories, and theories come and go.

We have rich inner lives because we were built for eternity.

That morning, I was going to see the consultant, my wife and I, read Psalm 91:1,

“He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
    will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.”

After reading it, I said to my wife, “We are going to receive bad news today.” God was forewarning me before I got the results.

Coincidence? No, there are 31,000 verses in the Bible, what’s the chances of opening the scriptures and that verse is staring at you? No, God spoke to us personally.

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