Some things the Bible says are especially addressed to young people, who are sensible if they read, ponder, and "listen" to what the Holy Spirit says. And there are also some things that the Bible says to elderly people, who will be wise if they listen.
David wrote Psalm 71 especially for them: (a) Verse 1, it is not God's will that you be "confused." (b) Verse 2, God hears your prayers. (c) Verse 3, the Lord is your only sure refuge, not the hospitals or the doctors, or Social Security, or your insurance policy. (d) Verse 4, the Lord does not want you to fall under the many current attempts to hoodwink the elderly. (e) Verse 6, remember God's care for you when you were a baby. (f) Verse 8, don't let any complaint come out of your lips; only praise to the Lord (you DO have something to be thankful for, don't you?). (g) Verse 9, remember that you are alive only because the Lord is with you; trust Him not to "cast [you] off in the time of old age." (h) Verse 14, even in "old age" it is your privilege to be youthful in spirit so you can "hope continually." When hope is gone, nothing remains but burial and you don't want that! (i) Verse 15, as long as you have breath and you can say something, you will declare God's "righteousness and salvation." That means you will keep your mind active by studying the truths of the Bible, especially the truth of "righteousness and salvation" by faith. (j) Verse 16: as you do so, you will receive new "strength." (k) Verse 17, now you can rejoice for having learned what the Lord has been teaching you "from [your] youth." (l) Verse 18, are you "greyheaded"? OK, then you have some work yet to do: to show the Lord's "strength unto this [younger] generation, and [His] power to every one that is to come." There is somebody in the world that needs your testimony of praise to the Lord, and even more than that, who needs the articulation of the Good News gospel that you can communicate. (m) And verse 20: the best preventative against Alzheimer's is to endure "great and sore troubles" that God "shows" you because He gives you new life ("quickens" you), not only physically but mentally and spiritually.
It's all Good News. Make a choice to believe it.
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: June 13, 2000.Copyright © 2010 by Robert J. Wieland.
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