I remember celebrating, if that is the right word, my fortieth birthday. There was a time when I considered forty to be old but now I have changed my opinion. I read an article published on the Internet a fee years ago.

Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000.

The article stated that ageing is a physical phenomenon happening to our bodies, so at some point in the future, as medicine becomes more and more powerful, we will inevitably be able to address ageing just as effectively as we address many diseases today.
He claimed that trials are well advanced and that some people alive today may well reach the age of 1000.

He went as far as to say, “I think the first person to live to 1,000 might be 60 already.”

Aubrey de Grey leads the project at Cambridge University and also runs the Methuselah Mouse prize for extending age in mice.

I am sure if this were the case The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions would himself fail to reach a ripe old age as he worries about how pension funds could support people living to the age of 1000.

I will trust Gods word on the mater and not some scientist

Psalm 90:10    The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

While it is true that we are living longer, yet in terms of eternity even one hundred years is negligible.

One of our best known hymns by John Newton, Amazing Grace has this verse, which speaks about heaven.

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun.

How long we live here on earth is not the most important thing, eternity is much more important.

Will it be in Heaven with Christ or in Hell without Christ?

As I said, my fortieth birthday has passed a few years ago but I have two birthdays. The one recalls the day I was born the other the day on which I was born again. Do you have two birthdays?

John 3:3    Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.