A Paul McCartney concert is scheduled in Pittsburgh on November 11. He's 83 years old. He was 14 when he wrote the melody to....When I'm 64....and 23 when the Beatles recorded it. He must have thought that 64 years was old. I was just starting to mature when I was 64!
Mentally....at 75 years old....I feel like I could go back to college. Hey....don't laugh...I went back to college at fifty years old in pursuit of another degree. Maybe I'm one of those who like to go back to college every 25 years?
It doesn't appear that Moses lost any mental acumen when he died at 120. David seemed pretty good when he died....Soloman may not have been as quick or innovative late in life....but he was wiser after screwing up big time....and the Apostle John seemed in top form when he penned Revelation....probably in his late 80s. So where does all this nonsense come from about mandatory retirements at 65?
And where do ministers get the idea that....short of tripping all the time walking to the pulpit....that they get to retire at all? John MacArthur was still preaching powerfully at 85....maybe he talked a little slower but listen sometime to his final sermon. God just took him home. Billy Graham was warning America more passionately at 90 than he was at 40. R. C. Sproul's last sermon pleaded with the listener as much or more than he did while a young man in Pennsylvania. If David Wilkerson were still with us in January of 2021....he died in 2011 at the age of 79....he would be walking the through the crowd at the ellipse yelling...."Ichabod! Ichabod!"
OK I get winded pushing my battery-operated self-propelled lawn mower....and I have to bring a case of bottled water in the house six bottles at a time....what does that have to do with sitting back....which I'm still good at....and watching prophecy fulfilled?
Aren't gray hairs supposed to mean wisdom? How can you know what the 80s were like in the church if there is no from that time period to tell you? How do you know what is fake if you do not first know what is genuine? How can you shout...."Ichabod....the glory has departed"....if you do not know what the glory was to begin with?
Learning through mistakes is invaluable....and I'm a billionaire in that field! Learning through experience is invaluable. I retired from my job at the end of October....2016....eight days before the election. I averaged 130 posts in the eight years from 2009 to retirement....and 280 posts in the eight years from retirement to 2025.
God brings us home in His perfect timing. We're not professional athletes. We don't wear out. I thought that watching professional sports was great when I was young. Now....I can't think of a greater waste of valuable time than following a sports team....beyond moderation....every year....let alone a professional team for every season....every year!
So you are....64....and everyone thinks that you are old. Tell them that you feel sorry for them....because Jesus is coming back real soon....and they do not have the time to gain the wisdom and discernment to even see that!
