If You’ve Got Gray Hair, This Is One’s For You S30e176

I’m not OLD, but I was born a long time ago.

What should I be doing with my older agedness?

What is God’s relationship with those who were born a long time ago?

In short: GET BUSY. 

Listen to old wisdom for Gray Haired People. 

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If You’ve Got Gray Hair, This Is One’s For You S30e176

I’m not OLD, but I was born a long time ago.

What should I be doing with my older agedness?

What is God’s relationship with those who were born a long time ago?

Our official review psalm is ps 71

3for you are my rock and my fortress. .ROCK

4    Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, 

from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man. 

5    For you, O Lord, are my hope, 

my trust, O Lord, from my youth. 

6    Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; 

you are he who took me from my mother’s womb. 

9    Do not cast me off in the time of old age;

forsake me not when my strength is spent. 

18    So even to old age and gray hairs, 

O God, do not forsake me, 

       until I proclaim your might to another generation, 

your power to all those to come. . 

Is 46:3-4 echos this prophesy. Clarifies it a bit:

Is was written in 600 b.c. Psalms in about 1000bc. Psalms was first.

Is. Clarifies the concept IMHO
3       “Listen to me, O house of Jacob, 

all the remnant of the house of Israel, 

       who have been borne by me from before your birth,

carried from the womb;

4    even to your old age I am he, 

and to gray hairs I will carry you.

       I have made, and I will bear;

I will carry and will save. .Even to your old age, I AM he

.And to gray hairs I will carry you.

I have made, and I will bear

I will carry and will save. 

Listen to what this is saying. You have been born,carried be BEFORE BIRTH, Carried in the womb even to OLD AGE I am HE. I am God

And to gray hairs I will carry you. SAME GOD

It is a time-stamp. How long is this going on:

       When your strength is spent

       When someone is standing on your last nerve

       When your special feature is God’s faithfulness to you

       When you might be tempted to think it is another generation’s turn…

What is God’s relationship with those who were born a long time ago?

Made by the Good Lord in the first place

Borne by me from before birth

Carried in the womb

Carried unto the gray hair season

The Lord declares: I HAV MADE AND I WILL BEAR YOU.  

I will CARRY YOU , I will SAVE You.

He is faithful: present as the I AM

He is Helpful: you might need to be carried during certain seasons

He is purposeful: I got stuff for you to do:

UNTIL I PROCLAIM YOUR MIGHT to another generation.

What should the OLD be doing? Look at a time of gray hair, when the majority of your strength is spent 

If He’s made you He’ll carry you.  And for how long? To old age and gray hairs

If you have gray hairs you must have another generation in mind.

At least part of why God has you hanging around with gray hairs is that He wants His might proclaimed into a generation behind you.

Find someone 20 yearsish younger than you in the church.

Older attach themselves to the younger by generosity and attention

Proclaim the might and power and steadfastness to this younger person

For this reason you have been sustained. 

If you are old, and “carried by the Lord” and you are wondering why…

         This is the reason. At least a reason, for the next gen

Here’s the worry: a worry of the aging

V9: do not cast me off in the time of old age

Do not forsake me when my strength is spent

We’ve got stuff to do. Generation, that is not mine to impact. How?

Show them God is real: I AM

Show them that in gray hair He will carry.

What does another generation need to see? If you’ve got not much gray hair, what do you need to see? What can the gray hair’s teach?

       That the Lord does not forsake, even to gray hair and old age

       That an older generation can proclaim to another generation

              By definition that gen is YOUNGER. For there aren’t any older

       That might and power and other divine attributes are proclaimed

       That the Lord does not cast off the veterans of the faith

       That this relationship is real, and that even to your old age I AM HE

              He will carry to gray hair

              He will bear those whom He has made

              He will save when strength is spent.

Joshua 13:113 Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess.

.If you have gray hairs, the Lord has stuff for you to get busy with: 

       The younger generation. Proclaiming power. Not cast off. Still in the fight, Look at me, I am carried to gray hair. The Lord is faithful. Watch me and I will show you that He will bear those whom He has made. He will save those whose strength is spent.

       He promises that to you He will stay the I AM

       That If He’s made you He’ll carry you WHY?

If you have gray hair, you have stuff to do!

He doesn’t want you to stand ASIDE, he wants you to stand in for

Proclim Him to another generation! Go get em.