Thursday, September 14, 2006

Rejuvenate.

Age creeps up on you.
It never makes a direct attack, but it subtly works away. No defences can fully protect you.

Grey hairs appear only one at a time; no-one will notice. Lines on your face emerge ever so slowly. You never see them appearing but all of a sudden there are more than you remember. 23 year old footballers seem so young and all of a sudden and you realise that you can recall a day when players of that age seemed old to you!

Age, it would seem, is the ultimate victor... or is it?

"Don't you know anything? Haven't you been listening?
God doesn't come and go. God lasts. He's Creator of all you can see or imagine. He doesn't get tired out, doesn't pause to catch his breath. And he knows everything, inside and out. He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts.
For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall. But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, they run and don't get tired, they walk and don't lag behind."
Is 40:28-31 (Msg)

As age progresses joints, which once moved smoothly, begin to grind and movement becomes restricted and painful. The same can happen in our spiritual lives.
We remember our youth when we seemed to have such a vigorous passion for God. If He even so much as whispered that He might want someone to do some work in Africa, you were immediately saving up your pennies and applying for a passport. Now it seems that God has to yell at you just to put an extra pound in the collection, and even then you spend weeks questioning the origin of such an 'ungodly' thought!

No matter our physical age there is no need for us to become spiritually old (I am not suggesting that we do not mature in our faith but rather we avoid become decrepit in our faith!).
"But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, they run and don't get tired, they walk and don't lag behind."

You may be praying today that God will keep your spiritual passion fresh, or, like me, you may be praying that He gives you fresh strength.
Don't you know? Haven't you heard? That's what He does [and loves to do]!
Amen!!!!!



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