“I’m too old” is one of many roadblocks from Satan that can prevent us from becoming who God created us to be.

Mid-lifers may think it’s too late to fulfill God-inspired dreams. Senior adults may lament that they are too ill or too out of touch with the youth culture to have a significant impact. Those are all lies of Satan!

The fact is that EVERY AGE has its challenges.

Ask any twenty-something how frustrating it is when you need experience to get a job, and you need a job to get the experience!

Every age also has its opportunities!

The key is to be who God has created you to be, and do whatever God has created you to do! It’s never too late!

Abramwas 79 years old when God called him to leave his home country. God did not tell Abram what the destination would be. But Abram trusted that God was faithful! Sometimes Abram had his doubts, i.e. when he laughed after God promised him a son in his old age.

Moseswas 80 years old when he led Israel out of slavery in Egypt. Sometimes Moses doubted too, i.e. when he tried to dodge his calling by saying that he was not a good speaker.

C.S. Lewiswrote the three volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia when he was 50-56 years old, in 1950-1956. (https://www.cslewis.com/us/about-cs-lewis) His book series eventually became a blockbuster movie trilogy in 2005-2008.

Lois Praterpromised God when she was a teenager that she would serve Him overseas. Finally, at age 87, she moved to the Philippines and built an orphanage to rescue children from poverty and abuse.

My own life with Christgets richer and more exciting as I get older! Now, at age 53, I can’t physically do everything now that I did when I was 20 or 30! And I’ve often been confused when things didn’t go my way. But God always repurposes my gifts and passions as I age. And I firmly believe that God will never put me on the shelf!

It’s difficult to understand why some things happen to the aged.

We don’t understand when someone has a debilitating stroke or suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. I do not claim to know even a millionth of a percent of the motives of God. But this I do know. God never leaves us. And He always has purpose for us no matter what our physical or mental condition.

My own mother, Ireland Cooke, suffered a catastrophic stroke when she 84. The stroke took away her ability to walk and speak. But 7 years later, after macular degeneration took away most of her sight, she was still a wonderful witness for Jesus. Whenever anyone asked her how she kept her great sense of humor and can-do spirit, her eyes would sparkle, and her face would light up in a crooked smile, as she pointed up with her good hand to God on His throne!

Another Christian woman who had been a pianist lived in a personal care home, and she often struggled with feelings of uselessness. But one day as she played the piano, some of the other residents sang with her the hymn “What Will You Do with Jesus?” A government auditor “happened” to be there that day. He remembered this song from his childhood, and he had never given his life to Christ, but that day he accepted Jesus into his heart!

Just as God used Abram, Moses, C.S. Lewis, Lois Prater, my mother, and the woman in the personal care home,God also wants to work through you, no matter what your age!

In life, just as in football, the most important part of the game is often the last quarter!

Psalm 92:12-14 says, “The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green.”

WHETHER YOU ARE 32, 52, 82, OR 102…

YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD FOR YOUR DIVINE CALLING! Be who you are, no matter what your age, and God will use you!

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