Will It Bible: Retirement

It’s time for another episode of “Will It Bible”, where we take a common phrase or concept and check to see if it is Biblical. I’ve gathered up some verses that we’ll discuss on my UkuleleWorship live stream at  https://www.twitch.tv/ukuleleworship from 6:30am-7:50am ET . Join us in chat and hit yes or no in the predictions before I complete the devotional and give away the answer!

I am not a person that can sit still. I’ve always said that I’m not likely to retire, because I would get bored to quickly. My dad is 76, and he hasn’t retired yet…but he works for himself, and he has cut back on his schedule a bit. But I work for someone else, and more and more I kinda wish I didn’t have to. I wish I had more time to volunteer and do crafts and walk my dogs and visit family. That sounds a lot like retirement. So I was wondering if retirement is Biblical? Did God plan for us to have a time when we are done being a laborer? Let’s check out the verses below and see what you think:

Numbers 8:23-26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting. And from the age of fifty years they shall withdraw from the duty of the service and serve no more. They minister to their brothers in the tent of meeting by keeping guard, but they shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites in assigning their duties.”

Luke 12:16-21 And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Ecclesiastes 3:13 Also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.

Psalm 92:12-14 The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

Acts 20:24 But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.