What would we do with a hundred year life if we had it?

For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.

Recently, Stanford University Center on Longevity announced a project called The New Map of Life.

In the U.S., the authors write as many as half of today's five-year-olds can expect to live to the age of 100.

This once unattainable milestone may become the norm for newborns by 2050. But the problem, the authors admit, is that we don't know what to do with an extra 30 years.

The narrative of an aging society seems to convey only a crisis.

Well, reaching this 100 Years of Life milestone, as, as one researcher put it,

a breathtaking package of human potential the world has never seen,

unprecedented numbers of people with unprecedented capabilities, and significant desire to give back and leave the world has never seen, unprecedented numbers of people with unprecedented

capabilities and significant desire to give back and leave the world better.

Well, Scripture agrees, calling Old Age a crown of glory, but that's not because of how

long it lasts or what's accomplished, it's because there's a why behind it all.

As Stanford looks for technological and sociological benefits to longer lives, Christians

can point to the source of meaning

for all of life, the one who faced and defeated death. The more we have time to do that, the better.

I'm John Stone Street.