Why Do We Suffer Old?

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Psalm 73:26

The saying goes: there are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots. There are old, bold Christians however, but why must we suffer old?

It would be much easier to tell the true believers apart from the world at large if they one and all stopped aging at their rebirth in Christ. This would also be a powerful incentive to believe in my Lord Jesus. However, faith would not be involved at all in this scenario, only a self-interested decision on whether to accept Jesus as savior at 19 or wait until 25, or perhaps 33 years old is the perfect age for some others. One can only imagine the number of books that would be printed and read on what age is the perfect one for that eternal youth with just the right amount of maturity. And then the Union of Nineteen Year Old Believers voted to renounce our Lord in order to gain a few more years maturity and all hell broke loose.

No, no, no... it is about faith and yes, we who believe in our Lord Jesus the Christ do have to suffer old. However, the way we see it is that each day is but one day closer to our being called home by our beloved Jesus to an eternity with Him that we can scarcely imagine in this age. The world has an evil ark loaded with pairs of sufferings and it is just waiting to inflict them on any who will believe in Jesus. Of course, the gunner of that dark ship may say, "There's another Job, get 'im!" but we are only afflicted with what our Lord allows. And every suffering we endure is used by our Lord to make us into something beautiful beyond our ability to describe at this time.

My Lord Jesus is coming, and He is going to sink that dark ark!

Bucky