The way that you and I will stay in the game all the way through until we're out of here

is that we see it as a continuous process of growing up in him, growing up in him, learning,

experiencing, ministering, being ministered to, serving, also knowing how to be served. That's what we're talking about.

The art of growing up that we're going to get to the end of our lives.

And God, if he has had his magnificent way as going to have such a masterpiece for us to see when we get there that he has done with the course of these years

and these days and these weeks and these moments and these seconds we've spent on this planet

what he's been up to in this sacred time he's given us in this tenure on earth.

And we're thinking through that arrival and that departure talked a little bit about infancy,

starting out with that pure spiritual milk.

I was thinking about my grandson Jackson when he was about 13 months old and first learning to walk.

And I think many of you know what I'm talking about.

When they first learned to walk, I have a little video where I'm standing out in front of him

on the front lawn of my house.

And I have him where he's in front of me heading toward me and I'm holding the phone with a camera like

this and I'm telling I'm saying come here buddy come here come here to bibby and he's just

smiling at me and he wants to come to me so badly but his feet are just going like this and he's

looking at me like I'll be back in a minute baby I'll be back in a minute, baby. I'll be back in a minute.

Because when we're first starting out, we're still just going where our feet are taking us instead of taken some kind of control over it and getting deliberate about

what we want out of life.

I say to you today, where do you want this thing to head?

I'm going to say that to you a number of times today and ultimately and most importantly,

of course, eternal life. But I'm not just talking about for this moment of time that when it's

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