Three older guys ... and what if

The lunch had been eaten and the separate checks paid. We were just sitting there, still shooting the breeze.

Well, we were talking about our elderly parents. We ourselves are in our mid to late 50s -- and the upcoming years ... well, pick up the conversation:

"Just think how fast the last 20 years went by."

"Yea, so the next twenty'll come and go before you know it."

"Ah, the life to come. You know guys ... after all of this; after all the sermons and the Bible studies and all of it ... what if none of it is true?"

"Yea, what if ... "

Quiet.

"It has to be true. Look around. All of this just didn't happen by chance ..."

"Hey, even if there is nothing on the other side, we'd have nothing to regret. We would've done it right."

"Yea, it would be better to have lived confessing, and then find out there's nothing -- than to have lived not confessing -- just to find out that there is."

Silence.

"But it has to be true. Look at all of this ... in us and around us ... it all fits together so wonderfully."

"Yea ..."

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1 Corinthians 15.19 If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.

2 Timothy 2.12 Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day.

Blaise Pascal, in Pensees: "... Let us weigh up the gain and the loss in calling heads that God exists ... if you win you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing..." (in Unclassified Papers, Series II, "The Wager", translated A.J. Krailsheimer, Penguin Books 1995, p. 123).