Give me this mountain.
—Joshua 14:12
John W. Gardner, chief architect of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society,” said that by their mid-thirties most people have stopped acquiring new skills and attitudes in any aspect of their lives.
I don’t know if that’s true, but if it is, you don’t have to be like “most people.”
Remember Caleb? When he was forty, he was one of the dozen men Moses sent to spy out Canaan—and one of only two who said that with God’s help they could conquer it.
Forty-five years later, Caleb was still going strong. At age eighty-five, when Joshua was dividing the land, Caleb said, “Give me this mountain.” Rejecting well-deserved retirement, he went after the “invincible” giants of the mountain. Caleb and a rocking chair weren’t made for each other.
Is there still a challenge in your future?
Don’t quit before you have to.