THANKFUL

Chatting with Jesus

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Lord, what happened to them? In my younger years, anyone 77-years-old was considered an antique. Now when I look into the mirror—hello antiquity. As unbelievable as it seems, the finish line of my earthly journey is just beyond the horizon. My once brisk gait now shuffles along. My gray hair has pushed the blond hair to the floor. And without my hearing aids, I have no idea what is going on. The prophet Isaiah and the apostle Peter kept this aging process in perspective for the believer.

“For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God. As the Scriptures say, “People are like grass; their beauty is like a flower in the field. The grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of the Lord remains forever.”” (Isaiah 40:6–8; 1 Peter 1:22-25).

From their youth, all generations have felt old age to be millennia away, something far, far into the future. Speaking of my generation, we felt the same. What a bummer of a deal, but as a result of the fall in the Garden of Eden, the reality is, we begin to die the moment we are born. Our soul will exit our earthly body one day. For the believer, though, our eternal life begins the moment we put our faith in God through Christ (John 5:24). Your promises of life eternal never end.

I like how Paul stated our aging process.

“That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day”. (2 Corinthians 4:16)

Lord, thanks for keeping us young and playful on the inside. Amen.