Remember The Creator

Bible Reading:  Ecclesiastes 12

Key Verse: Verse 1 – “Remember now thy Creator inthe days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;”

Key Words: Remember now thy Creator

It doesn’t take long in reading Ecclesiastes 12 to realize that Solomon is talking about old age, those years Abraham called “the well-stricken years.”

Solomon referenced a number of things about those years we call senior saint years:

Ø  The eyes grow dim (verses 2, 3c),

Ø  The arms grow weak (verse 3a),

Ø  The teeth begin to fall out (verse 3b),

Ø  The hearing begins to go (verse 4),

Ø  There is a fear to wander too far from home (verse 5a),

Ø  The hair turns gray, then loose (the almond tree) (verse 5b), and

Ø  The kidneys leak (verse 6).

I like the question once asked by Satchel Paige, that venerable alumnus of baseball: “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”  An honest answer to that question depends on an honest admission of one’s attitude.  It has nothing to do with one’s age.  As someone young at heart has written: “I have become a little older since I saw you last, and a few changes have come into my life since then.  Frankly, I have become quite a frivolous old gal.  I am seeing five gentlemen every day.  As soon as I wake up, Will Power helps me get out of bed.  Then I go see John.  Then Charlie Horse comes along, and when he is here he takes a lot of my time and attention.  When he leaves Arthur Ritis shows up and stays the rest of the day.  He doesn’t like to stay in one place very long, so he takes me from joint to joint.  After such a busy day I’m really tired and glad to go to bed with Ben Gay.  What a life!  P. S. The preacher came to call the other day.  He said at my age I should be thinking about the hereafter.  I told him, ‘Oh, I do all the time.  No matter where I am – in the parlor, upstairs, in the kitchen, or down in the basement – I ask myself what am I here after?’”

Do what you can for God while you are young and strong and full of energy.  Don’t waste your life on things that do not matter.

                                                                                         Dr. Mike Rouse 

What to do:

      ✞Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth.