WHO DO YOU SERVE IN OLD AGE

John 21:18 (NLT) “I tell you the truth, when you were young, you were able to do as you liked; you dressed yourself and went wherever you wanted to go. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and otherswill dress you and take you where you don’t want to go.”

Last week I turned 52 years young and aging seems so surreal to me. I would like to think I am like wine and cheese, I get better with time! Nowadays I keep trying to figure out who is staring at me in the mirror? I feel youthful and energetic in my “spirit”. But my body tells me another story. It aches in places and I do not know why? My hair is peppered and I do not know whether to grow it out and put it in a ponytail or cut it short.

I work and now find I have to pace myself and I do not like it; I want to still change the flat tire while the car is still moving, no interruptions. I used to go like a freight train at full speed. Now I go like a trolley car not wanting to hit a pedestrian. This is part of living in a sin fallen world, we age.

Every conversation does not have to be about our health. Why do we only talk about the physical when it is the spiritual health we should be most concerned about!

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles." Isaiah 40:31

I know growing older makes one more watchful and more inclined to lean on the Lord. You realize you are not as independent as you once were and you find yourself more reflective of how you lived your life and how to live what little you have left. Now it becomes mind over matter and yes it matters!

Let go of old age, let go of bad health, serve Almighty God and live.

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