The Psalmist has written in Psalm 90:12, “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
Age is sometimes a strange thing. When I was in my 40’s, I used to wonder what I would be doing in my 50’s. When I became 50, I began to wonder where and what I would be doing in my 60’s. When I turned 60, I began to look forward to the time of my retirement, and many times wished it would “hurry up and get here!” Now that I’m in my 70’s and well retired, I look forward each day to working on my “pet projects” in order to keep me busy and to keep me from falling into boredom. I remember how my dad would often tell me before the days of his passing, “This retirement life is not “cut out” to what it’s supposed to be!” That’s why he spent much of his time tinkering in his shop to fulfill his days. I agree with him, though. If you don’t have a “project” to work on, be it physical, reading, writing, drawing, painting, traveling, or whatever you have planned on all these pre-retirement years, life can get rather dull and without much to fulfill your days. Thus, after preaching all these years, I have turned to writing.
But thinking about age, did you know that Moses was 80 years old when God called him into leading a nation out of slavery and into the Promised Land? He was only 120 years old when the Lord buried him in a hidden place somewhere in “Moab, in the valley opposite of Beth Peor, and yet his eyes were not weak, nor his strength gone”. The prophet Daniel was the oldest living prophet when he died at the age of 90.
