Today, wherever you go you will witness that the young and beautiful are favored. So, we camouflage our age and try to look and act younger Truth is, aging brings with it many blessings. As we aged, we gained experience and wisdom. We gained perspective and learned to focus on what is important. We found more contentment in little things.
Temptation often comes at our weakest moments. When we have reached the limit of our love and our patience, for example, we are tempted to be unlike Christ in one way or another. Remember, Jesus' temptation began after forty days of fasting.
It is possible for one weak act to spoil a whole lifetime of witness.
The Christian life is a spiritual conflict from the moment of birth until we go to be with the Lord. The flesh wars against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh. There is absolutely no hope for victory until one discovers the availability of the supernatural resources of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Surrender your life totally, completely to Him and recognize moment by moment, day by day, that the Holy Spirit is the only one who will enable you to endure temptation. By faith you must draw upon His supernatural resources to live a supernatural life. Only then will you be victorious and fruitful for the glory of God.
Psalm 37 : 2…for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.
I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.
(0221) 25 July 2007