Psalm 92
Day 92: Be blessed
V14 Are you, will you still bear fruit in old age? Fresh? Green? Flourishing? Still proclaiming?
How will you grow old? Will you be renewed and sustained so that you cross the finishing line as a faithful servant of Christ? Every day is another day spent of your life. The finishing line is drawing near. The time of your life is right now, the opportunity to become all that you can become is now. This is not a rehearsal for something else. No one can run the race for you. You are not racing against any other runners. Your greatest opponent is yourself. The race is against yourself to be all that your Creator designed for you to be.
In August of 2006, Newsweek magazine interviewed Billy Graham. Amazed by Billy’s attitude in spite of deteriorating health, the author of the article wrote, “He seems congenitally incapable of surrendering completely to the weakness of the body.”
One of Dr. Graham’s daughters, Anne Graham-Lotz, recounted a conversation with her father on the subject of aging. “All my life, I’ve been taught how to die,” Billy told her, “but no one ever taught me how to grow old.” She replied, “Well, Daddy, you are now teaching all of us.”
Lotz also noted that she had learned an important lesson about aging after observing her father: “When you get older, secondary things, like politics, begin to fall away, and the primary things become primary again. And for Daddy, the primary thing is, as Jesus said, to try to love God totally and to love our neighbor as ourselves.”
It doesn’t matter how you start. It only matters how you finish.
You’re never too old to make choices, even limited that they may have become.
You can choose to praise God v1; to speak of God’s love every morning and God’s faithfulness every night v2; to be happy v4; to focus on the defeat of your enemy, v11; to flourish and grow, v12; to make Him your Rock, v15.
All of the above are choices you make. Make one today and though you grow old you will stay young! Staying young, you will be blessed!
Missions Paul 