I made a trip to downtown Boise two days in a row last week, and it took me days to physically recover! That made me laugh since I used to work in downtown Boise and made that 50 mile round trip every weekday.
At almost 80 I don’t handle things as easily as I did years ago. I am becoming “frail,” a term often applied to old people. Frailty in old people is defined as frequent fatigue or exhaustion, muscle weakness, reduction in strength, moving slowly, balance or stability problems. Yep, got all that!
People who only see my physical state may think of me as frail, but I don’t feel frail. In fact, I feel stronger and more robust than ever. I have found that as my physical strength wanes, I need to rely more and more on the LORD for His strength. My exterior may be suffering from “early onset rigor mortis,” but my interior is being renewed daily!
“Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.” [2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NLT]
That promise from God used to be in the future. Now it is an everyday reality. I am strong in Him. I am renewed each day in Him. My present physical frailty is offset by a spiritual glory that vastly outweighs it and will last forever!
Amen&Amen