The word for today is aging.
“The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. … Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Ps. 90:10, 12).
“When Joshua was old and well advanced in years, the Lord said to him, ‘You are very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over’” (Josh. 13:1).
“The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green, proclaiming, ‘The Lord is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him’” (Ps. 92:12-15).
“I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread” (Ps. 37:25).
“Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone” (Ps. 71:9).
“Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Cor. 4:16-18).
Lord, aging makes it better. Help me to keep saying: “Come along with me, the best is yet to be!”
Prayer: Lord, show me my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting are the days of my life.
