I need chocolate to get well!
I was having breakfast with a friend who had recently celebrated his 60th birthday. We discussed the trauma of the number 6 being the first digit in his age and all that the age of 60 implies (retirement, social security, etc.). We also pondered the fact that he felt so much younger than such a large number would seem to indicate.
Then the conversation turned to the lessons, joys, and blessings hed found in living those 60 years, and he said, You know, it isnt really that bad. In fact, its pretty exciting. The lessons of the past had brought a change in how he viewed the present.
Such is the aging process. We learn from our past in order to live in our presenta lesson reflected on by the psalmist: For You are my hope, O Lord God; You are my trust from my youth (Ps. 71:5). He continued, By You I have been upheld from birth; You are He who took me out of my mothers womb. My praise shall be continually of You (v.6). As the psalmist looked back, he clearly saw the faithfulness of God. With confidence in that faithfulness, he could face the future and its uncertaintiesand so can we.
May we say with the psalmist, I will praise Youand Your faithfulness, O my God! (v.22