October 4 – October 9
Offline: Traveling to MT for a Celebration of Life for a long-time friend. See you on the 10th. Appreciate your prayers for traveling – not my favorite thing to do. Thank you!
October 3
Age: Does It Matter?
A lovely friend recently messaged me Scriptures from a Bible Study she is attending. Reading them one theme became apparent … age. Here are parts of each verse. (You might want to read the entire passage.)
Isaiah 46:4: “…until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you.”
Psalm 71:18: “Now that I am old and gray, do not abandon me, O God.”
Psalm 92:12-15: “…Even in old age they will still produce fruit; they will remain vital and green.”
Acts 2:17: “In the last days, God says, ‘your old men will dream dreams.’”
I enjoyed reading those verses, but it was the one from 1 Timothy 4:12 that really had me thinking. “Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.”
Aged Paul wrote to young Timothy in a time when the aged were highly regarded, often thought of as wise. In our generation, we would have to revise that verse and replace “young” with “old.” “Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are old….”
Our society highly regards the young. We have teenagers speaking to climate change groups, young entrepreneurs developing new technologies, young adventurers reaching into space. On and on it goes.
The elderly are often simply people to be cared for, sometimes shut away. Our voices often go unheard. We are ignored as irrelevant, our opinions and insights as old-fashioned. BUT GOD … He not only cares for those of us exploring old age, He invites us to share our wisdom with those coming after us.
