Never To Old

Never Too Old by Steve Keeler

Scripture Psalm 71:9, 14-18

"Do not cast me off in the time of old age; Do not

forsake me when my strength fails. But as for me, I will

hope continually, and will praise You yet more and

more. My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness and of

Your salvation all day long; for I do not know the sum

of them. I will come with the mighty deeds of the Lord

GOD; I will make mention of Your righteousness, Yours

alone. O God, You have taught me from my youth, and

I still declare Your wondrous deeds. And even when I

am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I

declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to

all who are to come."

A little boy once asked a woman in a wheel chair in a

nursing home he was visiting how old she was. She

smiled and answered, "39 and holding." He looked at

her and said, "Well how old would you be if you let go?"

People say age is just a state of mind and that you are

only as old or only as young as you feel inside.

For example, if you happen to be an eighty-year-old

woman who is happy with life and you think that you

are just a spring chick, then guess what, you are going

to act and feel like you are much younger than reality.

On the other hand however, if you happen to be a

seventy-year-old grump who has a negative outlook on

everything, then you won't have any joy in life and you

will act and feel very old.

We're not supposed to just kick back and wait for the

inevitable when we reach our autumn age, we finally

have time, all this wonderful time now. Just doing

nothing all day will only lead to a nice funeral.

It was discovered that longevity and happiness in our

old age requires a purposeful lifestyle with ongoing

relationships, and sustained involvement.

What I'm trying to get across to you is that you need to

realize that just accepting your age can lead to losing

the best years of your life. Don't let yourself become

inactive and resigned, you need to live.

God wants you to live out your life in a meaningful way.

And the single best, the most meaningful way to spend

these better years of your life is by serving the Lord.

Listen to this, just because you are retired from your

old job, even if that was a really hard job like being a

wife and mother, you never retire from your spiritual

job. You can stay on the front line of the battle, working

for the Master.

Being here, in this place may actually present you with

the time and opportunity to be of greater service than

ever before.

I know that some of your might be saying, 'But I am too

old for that,' but service in God's army has no age limit.

Moses was eighty years old when God told him to go

get His children out of Egypt.

Abraham was seventy-five years old when he obeyed

God's command to leave his homeland and serve Him

in the land of Canaan.

We are never too old to serve the Lord, and we can

definitely never retire from serving Him. Let me tell you

when it comes to work of the kingdom, Not one of us

has earned the right to say "I've served our time".

As we saw in our scripture reading, God's Word

shatters the myth that once we have reached a certain

age that we have "served our time". It also encourages

those of us who believe we are too old to serve.

This Psalms shows that David never considered

himself as retired from serving the Lord and telling

people of God's goodness.

It's plain to see this was written for those in their senior

years when we look at verse 9 which says, "Do not

cast me off in the time of old age"

David was an old man when he spoke these words and

we read that his strength was failing him as well and he

pleaded that God not forsake him.

When David made this plea to God he didn't doubt that

God was with him. David was asking God to continue

showing His glory through him as he had always done

all his life. David still desired to be used by the Lord.

The Psalm says that David never ceased from telling

people about God's righteousness and His salvation.

Just like David, we should never stop telling people

about the salvation that they can find in Jesus Christ.

David was unwilling to give up his witness even when