To love God with all our heart,
soul, mind and strength, means we align our heart with His heart… His will,
wanting nothing more than to be with Him. Aging is a part of God’s judgment:
“It is appointed (by God) for men to die once.” Aging is the dying process...
death its culmination... time its yardstick: From the moment of birth we are
aging toward death. Aging is not our enemy but rather God’s will... a process
to be embraced. Our culture tries to reverse the aging process, tries to defy
God’s will. But the sooner we age and die... or fly, the sooner we are with the
great lover of our soul… forever. And… just how long is forever…
Every wrinkle has a beauty all
its own, mile markers on our journey home, the tracks of time and a reminder
that in the next life -- our real life -- there will be no time. We recognize the aged saints among us because
we can see the marks of long life on their face. We should honor and esteem
them for the spiritual wisdom each wrinkle represents, the overcoming
testimonies filling each sanctified heart. And besides, the decay of all the
things of this pseudo-life is necessary, lest we get caught up in loving what
the world loves, loving the very things our Lord warned and commanded us to
avoid. Lest we stumble at the stumbling stone of life -- Pride of Life in this
world. Lest we fail to “consider
the work of God; for who can make straight what He has made crooked”? Who indeed…
The God who collects our tears
in His bottles and counts the hairs on our head also knows and cherishes every
wrinkle on our face. He has a plan for our wrinkles... it is called
restoration. God commanded the children of Israel to take stones from the
Jordan River as a reminder attesting to God’s miraculous intervention in bring
about His promises to them. Saints, the wrinkles on our face are our stones…
living stones, taken from the River of Life to remind us of God’s faithfulness
and our soon coming Blessed Hope of forever with our Daddy.
“I have been young, and now am old; Yet I
have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread”:
WRINKLES ARE THE TESTIMONY OF
GOD’S FAITHFULNESS
(Ecc. 7:13; Heb. 9:27; Ps. 37:25)
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