NEVER TOO OLD TO BE USED OF GOD!

These past few weeks, I have been planning a birthday party for our Pastor's wife, Michele. This will be her 50th birthday. WHAT A GREAT BLESSING!! If we listen to the world, we are getting old when we turn 30 and over the hill at 40. Well, by the world's view by the time one hits the 50's mark they are just almost too old. Well you know where that leaves those of us who are 60,70,80,90 or in the l00's. How ridiculous!!!! To count our worth in terms of age.


To every age and season in life, we can and should be used by the Lord.

LUKE 1:5-7

There was in the days of Herod, the King of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
AND THEY WERE BOTH RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD, WALKING IN ALL THE COMMANDMENTS AND ORDINANCES OF THE LORD BLAMELESS. And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and THEY BOTH WERE NOW WELL STRICKEN IN YEARS.

Verse 18

And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? FOR I AM AN OLD MAN, AND MY WIFE WELL STRICKEN IN YEARS.

In these passages in Luke Chapter one we find the Lord has a blessing and a job for Zacharias and Elisabeth. The amazing thing is that Zacharias thought Elisabeth and himself to be OLD. We find that God was giving the old and barren a son. A very important son who would come before the Lord Jesus saying, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; AND ALL FLESH SHALL SEE THE SALVATION OF THE LORD."

No, we are never too old. We are to serve the Lord from the moment we become His child until our last breath is drawn on this earth.

I told the young, very young ladies that I teach on Sunday Morning that they are not too young to follow Jesus and think as He thought and do as He did. There are things that they can do. Such as go to someone who can not get out of their house and read the Bible to them, write a letter for them, wash the dishes for them, take them some cookies. They can smile, give out tracts, etc. No, you are never too young, once you belong to Him. On the other hand, nor are you ever TOO OLD.

As we get older, we should have more wisdom to share, we should know the value and importance of prayer. We can pray and God can and will change circumstances and lives. We can do what we can do even if it is just give away our smiles.

Then in every season of our lives, whether we are a child, a young woman, a wife or a mother, a Grandma or a widow there are ways that we can be used for the Lord.

So don't fall for the world's view of what age a person has worth. God can and does use all that want to be used. We need to live life with the right perspective with a perspective of eternity.

If you read your Bible, you will see that the Bible presents Old age as a favorable time being able to understand more of life's meaning and have wisdom that comes only from God. connie