Old Age and Gray Hair!

My memory's not as sharp as it used to be.  Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.


A woman in her 50s was driving with a friend. She went through a red light. The friend didn't say anything. But then she went through another one. The friend said, "Do you realize you just went through two red lights?"
"Oh," she said, "was I driving?"


There are lots of jokes about getting older.  Maybe aging is one of those areas where you need to laugh so that you won't cry!

As we get older, we struggle with things that we did not struggle with earlier in life.  Things like our memories, our eyesight, our overall health.  All of these factors bring about the desire in some to slow down and coast toward the finish line.  Yet, I don't believe that is what The Bible means when it tells us "run with endurance the race that is set before us." (Heb 12:1)


With much more of my life behind me than in front of me and after over 30 years in full-time vocational ministry, my desire is that of the psalmist who wrote:


 So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. (Psalms 71:18)

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. (Psalms 92:12-15)

May I bear more fruit in my old age than I have at any time in the past.  May I continue to the end to declare the uprightness of the Lord.  May I proclaim His might and power to another generation!

Yes Lord, even to old(er) age and gray (or no) hair may I flourish in Your courts!  May I "run the race with endurance"!

Continue to use me to reach the next generation!!