Are you old? Well, the answer depends on who's asking. When I was a child, I thought my grandmother was very old. She'd always been old in my mind. And now that I have become a grandmother, my grandkids think that I am old, and I am a younger grandmother than my grandmother was. But my mother, on the other hand, thinks I am young!
Old or young - it has less to do with the number of years we've lived, but a lot do with what we think about those years, and how we see ourselves.
Psalm 92 in the Bible has some wonderful words about old age. And I believe the Psalmist was thinking about old in terms of many years in this Psalm. Listen to these verses from Psalm 92, "The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green, proclaiming, 'The LORD is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him'" (Verses 13-16).
There are some people who will bear fruit in old age (and obviously some that won't) and stay fresh and green and proclaim praise to the Lord. Who are these people? They are the righteous. If you and I are among the righteous, we can expect to live vibrant, fruitful and blessed lives when we get old in years.
But how do we get to be among the righteous? By being born again, by accepting Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and believing God's Word as His Word to us personally.
So today, if you're old in years, don't let that stop you from living life to the full, from being fruitful and stay youthful and healty, always ready to proclaim the Lord's goodness.
There's no need to be worried about age!
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