Old Age is Not for Sissies (continued)

Finally, I have to keep reminding myself that I am not alone.  Neither are you! This is something I say to myself, out loud, and then I say it again.  I am not alone.  God is in this with me!  He is in this for you. We can cry out to Him and He will listen.  I try not to sputter or fume about the happenings  of the day.  After all He is God.  He is in control.

“Shh, my child, now really, is this what you were crying out to me about? Quiet now for I am here with you.  Can you stand up?  There!  Now, take my hand and let’s climb out of here.”  So He pulls and I hang on for dear life. Then we talk.  Oh true, I mumble and grumble, but I have concluded that God will never let me go.  He hushes my whining and listens to what I have to say.

Goodness…..this has all the earmarks of the sermon of the century, does it not?  But honestly, God is in the driver’s seat.  God has thought this age-thing through.  Remember that old man called Caleb?  He was that spy way back in the Old Testament?  You remember…..Joshua and Caleb….did Caleb run out of gas?  Not once.  Listen to Caleb talking—-

Now then, just as the Lord promised,

He has kept me alive for forty-five years

 since the time he said this to Moses,

 while Israel moved about in the desert.  

So here I am today, eighty-five years old!  

I am still as strong today

 as the day Moses sent me out’ 

I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle as I was then.”

Joshua 14: 10,11  NIV

Lord, this day give us Caleb-confidence!  Grant us patience, dear Lord for today and all the todays that might follow.     Miggy Krentel

“Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” 

Psalm 90:12 NIV

“Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” 

Psalm 90:12 NIV