No Need for a Bucket List When We Walk with Christ

I don't have a bucket list because I am grateful to God for all the things in my life that brought me wisdom and joy in learning that wisdom.

Since I have no need to have an adventure on this earth beyond the blessing of knowing Jesus Christ, I can look forward to what I know for sure is coming for me when I pass from this world or am taken up in the rapture.

Nothing on this earth is worth pining away for, wishing for or clamoring to find before I pass.

The devil entices the world to desire and need something that is not possible for most people. By the time we can afford to do some exciting adventure we are too old and frail to carry it out, there is a sense of loss for those who have bucket lists.

Each day with Christ is full of joy and an adventure knowing He is in control and each new day is another day to learn something I didn't know before.

Jeremiah 29:11

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

James 4:13-16

"Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil."

Proverbs 19:21

"Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand."

When we know that God has a purpose in all things for those of us who have been born again, we can rest content in each day. Today I looked out my window watching a small herd of six dear grazing in our yard. Just sitting there praising God for this sight to enjoy from my window was great joy as I pondered that God provided those deer for my enjoyment.

It is my belief that "bucket lists" exist more for bragging rights than they provide any sense of joy personally to the one who says they have one. There is no greater joy than contentment with what God has given us and what we will be doing when Christ takes us home.

1 Timothy 6:6-10

"But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content."

Perhaps the Lord provided infirmity in our elder years so that we learn the futility and uselessness of wandering the earth to see things that we can boast to others we did.

I am grateful to the Lord for placing in me contentment and the knowledge of what is to come when I leave this world.