Growing Older

  You know you’re getting old when the jokes about growing older seem more like the facts of life than humorous antidotes.  e.g. You know you’re growing old when: Your joints are more accurate than the National Weather Service.  Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.  It takes twice as long to look half as good.  Come on… We might as well smile because from an earthly perspective it only gets worse, until our bodies fail us, and suffering and loss bring us to the point at which there is no will to live.  What we are all experiencing in our earthly pilgrimage is a sad reality of life, it ends in death.

  In spite of the indisputable law of averages, many insist that they will beat the process of aging, and, though they might long to share their secret, it is mysteriously locked up in their own experience.  When confronted with the brevity of life, they almost smugly reply, “I’m all set.”  But in truth, no one can be all set if their confidence is in themselves, their doctors, their program, their organization or their cleverly devised plan.  All of our predecessors had these as well.  The law of averages is always enforced, and death lurks in the path of every man.

  The reason there is an enemy called death is because of sin. For the wages of sin is death… (Romans 6:23).  Isn’t it obvious?   The destructiveness of sin is why you and I are headed for the grave and the earth to ruin.  To deny this is foolish, as foolish as it is to deny that there is a God while standing in the midst of His creation.

  It would be unbearably sad if the only perspective of life was the one that physical life forces upon the living.  But as sure as there is a God in heaven, there is also one other perspective, His perspective.  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16).  Look and Live!