Our Golden Years!

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Post Date: May 4, 2024

Author: Med Laz

Old age can be a most rewarding period of life. For those who have found the satisfaction of a loving and close relationship with the Heavenly Father through faith in Jesus, the “sunset years” can be more appropriately labeled the “golden years”.

Henry Durbanville felt that way. In his book The Best Is Yet To Be he wrote, “I feel so sorry for folks who don’t like to grow old…

“I revel in my years. They enrich me…I would not exchange…the abiding rest of soul, the measure of wisdom I have gained from the sweet and bitter and perplexing experiences of life. 

“Nor would I exchange the confirmed faith I now have in the…love of God, for all the bright and uncertain hopes and tumultuous joys of youth. Indeed, I would not! 

“These are the best years of my life…The way grows brighter, the birds sing sweeter, the winds blow softer, the sun shines more radiantly than ever before. I suppose ‘my outward person’ is perishing, but ‘my inward person’ is being joyously renewed day by day.”

Robertson McQuilkin wrote, “God planned the strength and beauty of youth to be physical. But the strength and beauty of age is spiritual. We gradually lose the strength and beauty that is temporary so we’ll be sure to concentrate on the strength and beauty that is forever.”

Thanks to CD for the picture. 

As I fiddle with my walker or my cane to get around, I wonder about these being my “golden years.”  I have to stop again and again and realize that “my outward person” is perishing, but “my inward person” is being joyously renewed day by day.

How do YOU feel about reaching your “golden years” now or in the future? 

“LIFE IS WAY TOO SHORT TO SPEND ANOTHER DAY AT WAR WITH YOURSELF!”  God

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