Good morning,
The process of growing older is a wonderful adventure for those of us who have become a part of God’s eternal family. The world around us does all that it can to keep themselves young and healthy. Clever people are able to become very wealthy telling the people around them the secrets of living a long successful life is only . . .. Ordinary people who face the normal process of aging and losing their strength and endurance find themselves threatened by the idea of failure and aloneness. These growing fears have to be stuffed down or covered over with distractions, despair or religious belief systems that help them to feel that they are still in control. While it is true that God’s kids do get sick and weak and die, the course of their lives isn’t based on endurance but on God’s perfect and eternal finished plan for each one of us.
If we really are trusting that Jesus is the Savior of our souls, salvation is not just a point in time. Salvation is God’s completed plan that starts with our conception and will never end, not even in eternity. As genuine children of God, we can look forward to God’s personal plan for each one of us that has a beginning without and ending.(Ps.138:16) Paul put it this way when he wrote, And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.(Philippians1:6) When we see Jesus face to face we are only beginning the process of living in a perfect eternity with a perfect God, a perfect family and a perfect plan that will never grow old. For those of us who are getting older in time, the Psalmist looked at the process as one of growing ministry, not growing older. When he looked back at his life, he saw ministry, not misery, as God’s plan for his life. O God, you have taught me from my earliest childhood, and I constantly tell others about the wonderful things you do.(Ps. 71:17) He recognized the challenges in his life as training and opportunities of sharing the realities of living for a God whose plan was filled with wonder, not terror. He was old enough to experience normal aging, but his concern wasn’t for his weakness. What he asked was, O God. Let me proclaim your power to this new generation, your mighty miracles to all who come after me.(v.18) May the Lord help those of us with greying hair and weaker bodies to keep pressing on as examples for the younger folks around us, that our God is an awesome God, for all of time and all of eternity, for them as well as us.
Philippians 1:6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.
Roy Wisner
