Wow! Here we are in 2022! Amazing, because when I was ten or eleven years old, I heard my grandparents talking about the year 2000. I remember thinking that that would never happen. It was so far away that it was impossible. Well, what did that ten or eleven year old know? Absolutely nothing, because here we are beyond 2000.
Last week I was talking to my son about this and that. How we grow up, get married, have children and grandchildren, etc. Then we get old. Now what do we older people do? He said, "Mom, they need to be doing what you're doing." What a pearl from heaven. And I realize that the Lord doesn't have the same calling or job for everybody. We are individuals and so is our calling of the Lord. But we have a purpose here until he calls us home.
I refuse to call myself "old". I call myself older. Why? Because thinking that you're "old" will cause you to become old. It's a mind thing. Many older people use their age as an excuse to not do something. It isn't that many are too old, it's that they don't want to do whatever. I have learned, in my older years, that I can say "no." Where does God say that you always have to say "yes"? Yes to him, of course, but many things that are said to be of him are not so. If we're led by the Holy Spirit, sometimes the answer is no, don't do that. So who do we follow? The Holy Spirit, the world, or even the religious organization?
God has many things to say about we older people. We are to be a blessing to the younger people. I remember a few years ago after I came here, that a young woman had come here with another group to do whatever. She told me one day that she was in church one Sunday morning, and she looked around and asked herself what was she doing there. She was in the young people's church service, not the traditional (old) peoples group. And she realized that this group didn't know anymore than she did. She left and went to the "traditional" church service, and never looked back.
Here are some other promises for us older folks! Ps.37:25, Ps.39:5, Isa. 46;4 which says, And even to your old age I am he; an even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made and I will bear: even I will carry, and deliver you. Even as he carried Israel through the desert, so will he carry us. Carrying us doesn't necessarily mean that we can't walk.
I hope that we learn to enjoy our older age and what the Lord is doing in, with, and through us. When we look at what he did with Abraham and Sarah, Caleb, and Moses, we should be delighted with our own age and what the Lord is doing. No, we aren't going to do what they did, but if the Lord worked through them to accomplish his will then, he will also work in us to accomplish his will today. Remember, God doesn't change. He's the same today, yesterday, and forever. Hallelujah!
Grace and peace.
