Does it seem to you that old folks draw closer to God? Is it because of fear that they are nearing death? Or is God’s way of preparing them to leave this world? Is it all part of God’s perfect plan?
Psalms 84:7 tells us that man goes from strength to strength…..from physical strength to spiritual strength….. then, appears before God. Paul tells us in 2Cor 4:16, “though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”
Someone once said that trying to ensure long lasting physical health is like trying to stem the tide with a pitchfork”. Our bodies keep ticking away in inevitable decline. We have a graphic picture of aging in the twelfth chapter of Ecclesiastes. Pleasures are few (vs1); hands tremble, back bows, teeth fallout, eyes grow dim (vs3); sleep becomes light, hearing fades (vs4); fears increase, muscles weaken, desires fail (vs5); possessions break (vs6); dust returns to the earth (vs7).
The conclusion of the whole matter (vs13&14) is fear God and keep His commandments; the significance is not found in the number of our days, but in what God says about how we have used them. The senses fade, then the body and then the mind. Gradually stripped of everything that props us up; our wealth, health, independence, dignity, beauty, and all of the above; we are left with more and more of God, and are more and more ready to meet Him face to face.
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