Seeing the truth

Contrary to popular belief, old-age does not sneak up on you. My first experience with “old-age” slapped me about nine years ago. Home from Romania for a furlough, I decided to have my blood tested before we returned to the mission field. My cholesterol came out to be over 300! That was my first experience with the fact that I could no longer eat like a teenager.

Now, as of two days ago, I am wearing bifocals. When the optometrist told me I should wear bifocals, I said, “Old people wear bifocals!” He starred at me. Seriously, he said when you get over forty, you tend to wear bifocals. “But I’m barely over forty!” “Some have to wear them beginning at 35!” He pointed me to reality – I need to be thankful for what I have.

But it is another sign that you cannot stop the aging process. Ladies, it doesn’t matter how much Oil of Olay® you smear on your face, your face is still getting old underneath. You may eat all veggies all your life. You cannot stop the aging process.

So, what we need to do is get prepared. We need to prepare our children to be mature when we are gone, making mature decisions without us. We need to prepare our family, through insurance, if death comes unexpectedly. The fact is that death will come one way or another.

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That’s why we need a new body, created after the image of Jesus Christ. Paul writes in Colossians 3:9-10: “Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.” The more you learn about Christ, the more you live like Him, the younger your new self becomes.

What a great thought. As the outward man deteriorates and becomes obsolete, the inward man is getting newer, stronger, more Christ-like each day (2 Corinthians 4:16-18).

–Paul Holland

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