Below are the ages of a few men considered giants of modern Christianity and when they completed their race on this earth:
• Charles Spurgeon – 57
• Jim Elliot – 28
• John Knox – 58
• William Tyndale – 42
• Robert Murray M’Cheyne – 29
• Samuel Rutherford – 60
• Jonathan Edwards – 54
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer – 39
• John Owen – 59
• David Brainerd – 29
• John Wycliffe – 54
Some of these were martyrs for their faith and some died of natural causes but all of them died at what we would consider an early death.
May the Lord teach us to number our days (Psalm 90:12), and help us truly grasp how short our time may be serving Him.
Only one life will soon be passed. Only what’s done for Christ will last.