Has Life Begun?

Finally it is here, the completion of 40 years of life God has given me. Does it feel like life has begun? (There is a saying that life begins at 40 – for those who don’t know.) Everything seems the same so far, except that I woke up before my alarm.

For the last two years, I’ve had a lot of expectations regarding this phase of my life. My most significant request to the Lord was that I would have the privilege of focusing most of my time and energy on the things that I’m “made for.” What am I made for? Turning people to Christ, discipling them and making them soul-winners. I want to train others to reproduce this process many times over throughout their lives. I guess it’s a simple request.

God has been gracious to me during my brief life-span. Early in my teenage years, He took a hold of me. The verse that inspired me from that time on was Jeremiah 20:9b “…his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.” He called me to be in his glorious ministry, and to come along and be a part of that call he’s given me my wife Annie(Joy), and my children Nathan and Sharon.

OK, God, another 40 more!

Alexi E. George

20 June 2006