“Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old...another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.”
(John 21:18)
Time brings changes and those changes are not always what we planned or prefer. In our youth most of us, if not all, had a fanciful ideal of what life held for us; but as many of us grew older we found the road we traveled could take a detour, with a drastically sharp turn. In early life we do pretty much what we want, but later on find there are things we’re compelled to do, things out of our control, things we’d not chose to do. Like Samson of old found, we cannot do things the way we formerly did.
When change for the, seemingly, worst comes we are apt to be aggravated by the bitterness of the circumstances, for remembering the sweeter times of health, prosperity, and happiness. But at such times we need to be reminded of Job’s words to his wife, “Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” Life is made up of the bitter and the sweet. He mingles them together; it's called, “Bittersweet!” This is the teaching of Romans eight-twenty eight.
Each of us needs to accept the fact, as the life of darling David teaches, the time will come when we can no longer go out, as at other times, to fight the giants of life, as we would like; others will be called in to do for us what we can no longer do, 2 Sam. 21:16-17. There is no shame in submitting to and admitting to our frailties. As Matthew Henry writes, “When one becomes a Christian he does not put off the man.” Don’t spend your time thinking about what you can’t do now, but what you did do then!
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