The world has a very large aging population. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people 60 and older outnumbers children younger than five years. Between 2025 and 2050 the proportion of those over 60 will nearly double from 12 percent to 22 percent. By 2030, 1 in 6 people will be 60 or over, reaching 2.1 billion by 2050. (Ageing and health)
Those of us in this category must come to the realization that much more of our lives are behind us than what still remains. However, let’s not dwell on the finality of our mortal existence. Let’s focus on how we will spend the time we have left, doing things, and being the person that will make a positive difference in the lives of others, outliving our lives. Outliving our lives means having positive character, spiritual, ethical, and moral qualities that are an example to others who follow, and that they will exhibit. Live a life that will pass on a strong spiritual faith to the next generation. “O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come” (Psalm 71:18).
We as seniors, can choose to drift through the rest of our lives by doing nothing of significant value, or we can dream God-sized dreams that will impact lives well after we are gone. A God-sized dream or life mission is a goal or ministry planted in our hearts by the Holy Spirit that is so big that only God, working through us, can make happen. “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us”(Ephesians 3:20).
At our age the body is getting weaker. However, a new vision for our lives can reinvigorate our inner spirit to accomplish what God has for us to do. Isaiah 40:29 says, “God gives power to the faint and to him who has no might he increases strength.” “Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you…(Isaiah 46:4).
In the struggles, heartaches, physical pains of life, and age-related adversities, let us focus on the life to come in our eternal home in heaven, for those of us who have accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior, where there will be no more pain or suffering.
“Do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comprehension, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen” (II Corinthians 4:16-18).
Be able to say, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race. I have kept the faith”(II Timothy 4:7).
If you are not a Christian, you do not have the assurance of going to heaven, but you can by calling on the name of Jesus, “that you may know that you have eternal life” (I John 5:13)).
Very good encouragement, John. Thanks!
Inspirational encouragement John,
Thanks,
God Bless
At our age the body is getting weaker. However, a new vision for our lives can reinvigorate our inner spirit to accomplish what God has for us to do. Isaiah 40:29 says, “God gives power to the faint and to him who has no might he increases strength.” “Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you…(Isaiah 46:4).
wonderful john
hands up.. who is less than 60 of the writers o here