My dear boy,
First, you identify the need; then you create a product that serves that need. Your mother, for instance, a beauty industry leader, favors natural remedies to achieve beauty. Her personal brand sits at the nexus of food and beauty. But before she became vocal about that, understand that she formulated a wide range of products: hip enlargement, butt enlightenment, breast enlargement creams. These are body enhancement products.
Now, each product is designed with a specific beauty need in mind. Are there products that somewhat cater to more than one need? Yes, but primarily they were created for one thing. Even certain medications serve the same in that, in pursuit of one cure, we may find another. It doesn’t, however, erase the fact that we were trying to solve a need.
Bringing that into the context of humans, we understand that humans have a manufacturer. Man has a manufacturer who made him, and He made him with a purpose in mind. Manufacturers will admit to the enduring possibility of making a product which meets more needs than you had envisioned. That’s a given, seeing as every solution births a problem. Every solution births a problem. I think that is the limitation with the human mind, and a clear distinction between the human mind and the Divine Mind. The Divine Mind proffers solutions that are finite: they need not be added to or removed from. Irrefutable evidence is divine healing. You get healed, and there are no complications; there are no redundancies. Nothing of such. It’s done. But with medical science, you have to deal with certain complications from the application of some medications or procedures.
I digress. The point here is the fact that, having this understanding, you then realize that few Bible characters did not die untimely, as we would define it. See, every product has a shelf life. Some products naturally have a longer shelf life. As such, to term a particular product with a short shelf life as “dying untimely” is disingenuous, because you have not factored in that defining its makeup is the need it is meant to meet. Likewise, a man whose race, whose life, whose assignment is to finish at the age of 40, if he lives longer than that, would undo what he had spent the last 40 years doing. “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain.” The story of John the Baptist lends credence to my assertion. In fact, I’m open to discussing this theology.
Nevertheless, I consider it an act of Divine mercy that John the Baptist was killed when he was. He had to die because his assignment was up. The degree to which a man lives is the degree to which time is required for the fulfillment of his assignment. Some have, however, enjoyed a longer life because they are yet to begin. But as Paul Onwunibe says, “The opportunity of a lifetime is realized in the lifetime of that opportunity.” So maybe finish, and when you’re done, you go home.
Love,
Dad.
