I'm not single but this popped up in the new posts results...
The best thing about getting older is, every second older you get you're one second closer to meeting God!
I certainly understand this point but I often feel as if people see the entire pinnacle of the Christian life... is to die.
Yes, I know it gets us to Jesus.
But I've always felt that if all we're doing is waiting to die (and go to Jesus), shouldn't we all then pray that we'll hurry up and die as soon as possible? Even Paul said he would rather be with Jesus...
Which is yet another reason why, even since childhood, I dreaded getting older. And my childhood prayers were often, "If being with you is as wonderful as everyone says it is, please do whatever it takes to get me to You as soon as possible."
As a child, it seemed, from what everyone was telling me ("In heaven there is no more sadness!" "In heaven there is no sin, no injustice, no suffering!" "In heaven our joy is complete!"), that THE greatest thing to do in this life is to die, and I couldn't figure out why in the world anyone actually wanted to LIVE, because it was delaying the marvelous time you could be spending with Jesus...
Thus being part of the reason why I spiraled into an uncontrollable depression even as a young child.
I always figured the most Christian thing to do was to try to do as much good as you could in this life, all while praying for God to kill you as soon as possible so that you could be with Him.