Let us not dread old age. Let us grow old graciously… –Charles Spurgeon
I often say that growing old is not for sissies. Can I get an “Amen!” from the Seniors?
To say that this aging process of mine has been challenging would I think be a bit of an understatement. The “Bod” just doesn’t bend or, bounce back, like it used to.
This year my shoulder has developed a persistent twinge; the knees creek and crack a bit more; and the broken bones of yester-years feel the cold way more than the used to.
Who was it who said, “It’s the coming down that wears me out.”?
I guess he, or she, was referring to coming down the other side of the hill.
(Is that where the expression “over the hill” came from?)
The MORE of “Nevertheless…”
I like the word NEVERTHELESS!
It fits so nicely into many of our Kingdom principles.
Perhaps looking at our difficulties with a nevertheless perspective is the first step in approaching them with cheerfulness and optimism.
I don’t think anyone would doubt that life is growing more difficult for many of us, no matter what age you are.
Therefore, let us all embrace our journey into this New Year with more cheerfulness and optimism.
(So much better than grousing and complaining, yes?)
Unchanging and Faithful
That is who our God is!
He never changes though our lives are in a constant state of flux.
He remains for we who believe, Our Faithful Father, loving us in the eternal extreme until the end, and beyond.
How it warms my heart to know Him better as each year goes by and grow more in love with Him day by day.
Though the hair on my head has grown snowy-winter-white with age, I pray that my heart will remain green and lovely as Springtime, embracing and singing of His loving faithfulness to me all these years.
Charles Spurgeon writes,
HE WILL CARRY US HOME
Even to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. –Isaiah 46:4
The year is very old, and here is a promise for us all, as age creeps over us. Let us live long enough, and we shall all have gray hairs; therefore we may as well enjoy this promise by the foresight of faith.
When we grow old, our God will still be the I AM, abiding, evermore the same. Hoar hairs tell of our decay, but He decays not. When we cannot carry a burden and can hardly carry ourselves, the Lord will carry us.
He made us, and He will care for us. When we become a burden to our friends and a burden to ourselves, the Lord will not shake us off, rather He will take us up and carry and deliver us more fully than ever.
Let us not dread old age. Let us grow old graciously, since the Lord Himself is with us in fullness of grace. –Charles Spurgeon, Faith’s Checkbook
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