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The Relentless March of Aging
I heard this interesting statement the other day, I thought, how true, how true! Relentless would suggest a constant, persistent, unswerving, unyielding, unstoppable, irrepressible, tenacious march toward aging. Truly Paul said it this way, "For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day." 2 Cor.4:16. If we are allowed to live, we shall get old and the outward man is wearing out and breaking down. The other day I was in the store picking up some lunch meat at the deli counter, and the lady handed it to me and said, "Do you want anything else young man." That sounded pretty good for the first time in my life! The Wise man talked about the problems of old age in Eccl.12:3-7. "In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." In poetic form, he describes the various common problems that happen to all of us in that relentless march of aging. Not every problem happens to everyone, but these are the general problems of older folks. Then verse 7 points out that will happen to old or young who die, we return to dust from what we were made of. The only solution is to put emphasis on the inward man, the soul; to seek and strive for the that glorified body to come, that the Lord has promised to those who love him, "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." 2 Timothy 4:8
