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24th December 2025
WednesdayReflection
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'Linda's Bible Study'
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"Old Age is Just a Beginning"
..... Psalm 71:9
'Do not reject me now that I am old; do not abandon me now that I am feeble.'
Psalms 69-71 are David's impassioned pleas for God to protect him from his enemies; to save him from shame and defeat.
The attempts against his life started when he was very young, and continued into his old age.
He had times of blessing and prosperity, and he had times of grinding loneliness and hopelessness.
Such is the human condition.
Much of what David endured, he created by his own poor judgment and behaviours.
The thing that so amazes me is that David was always willing to confess his sin and beg God for mercy.
Even in his old age, as his physical strength left him, he acknowledged his sin before God.
The verse I've chosen today speaks to me on a very personal level these days.
Terry had his 80th birthday last week.
He's worked very hard all his life, and one can see the toll of that hard physical work on his body.
His injured foot has given him 11 years of unrelenting pain.
The compression fractures in his spine have robbed him of inches.
Severe arthritis in his right hand has limited his ability to use his hammer, pliers, and other tools.
Those who didn't know him even 15 years ago will probably always see him as he is today.
But I knew him as he still is, in his own heart and mind, and that is how I will always see him Strong, vital, full of energy.
He is physically limited these days, but he's not limited in his heart, mind, and spirit.
That's the way I see David in this verse.
He's old. His great strength and energy have been worn out.
He feels vulnerable, because even in his old age there are enemies who want to take him from his throne.
And so he prays to God, asking God to continue to protect him; to remember him even in his old age, and to be his strength in a time when his own physical strength is failing.
The comfort I find here is that God has said that He will never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:5).
Even when we are old and can no longer fight our own battles; even when it seems the world is moving on without us, leaving us with memories of days gone by, we still have a hope and a future.
That future is that after we leave this life, we will see Jesus face to face, and live eternally in heaven with Him.
We will be changed from the confines of our physical bodies, and there will be no more sickness, death, pain, or dying.
I look forward to death, not with dread or morbid thoughts, but with the faith that it is the door to an existence we can't begin to imagine!
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'Linda's Bible Study'
I'm a 78-year-old wife of 56 years, mother of four, grandmother of nine.
I was born-again when I was five, through the loving and clear teaching of my Sunday school teacher.
I was baptized at age eight by Dr. Richard Clearwaters at the Fourth Baptist Church in Minneapolis.
My dad was a pastor from the time I was about 10 until he died when I was 46.
I still miss him.
He was one of the best Bible teachers I ever had, able to take the difficult concepts of God's Word and make them understandable.
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