Even to
your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I
will bear; I will carry and will save.
When I was in my teens and twenties, I considered myself young and
bullet proof. I thought I could out run and out jump most people, and I
believed that nothing the world threw at me could hurt me.
I would look at my parents as they aged, as well as those older
than myself as they developed signs and symptoms on growing older. I would say
to myself: “I will never be like that,
and will never let disease and aging catch up with me”!
I still consider myself younger, but feel the signs and symptoms
of aging creeping up on me. Especially when I grow a beard or mustache and it
comes in mostly grey. I feel it when my children remind me of my grey hair, as
well as my weight.
But did you know that whatever your age our relationship with God
can still make us feel safe and secure, young or old. Beloved, even as we grow
older and begin to feel more aches and pains, we can celebrate that God is unchangeable.
Wherever we are and no matter how old or young we are, God’s love
is the same for us. The same as our first born day until the day that we take
our last earthly breath. Even as our parents age, we have the faith and the
promise that our Father God will always be here as our loving parent, to lift
us up and to protect us.
When it comes to God’s promise of protection and deliverance, age
is just a number. God’s eternal promise of resurrection after earthly death is
promised to the young who feel powerful as well as the more mature that are
beginning to feel vulnerable.
My prayer for you today is that no matter your age or current life
situation, nothing can hurt us. Yes, nothing can hurt us because of a Fathers
love who sacrificed His Son on the cross for our sins. Nothing can hurt us
because of the empty tomb, three days after the crucifixion.
This is the day that the Lord has made, rejoice and be glad in it.
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