You have accepted Christ as your Savior, so stay close to Him. When you are a new believer, your excitement and enthusiasm is high and you are on fire for the Lord Jesus. After some time lapses, Christianity and going to church can become ordinary, if not just plain monotonous. What happened? More often than not, you have taken your eyes off the Lord Jesus and focused on other Christian’s behavior or focused on the world and the world’s goods. Therefore, you need to confess that sin as 1 John 1:9 tells us to do and get back to obeying and serving Jesus.
There are a number of senior citizens, though, who have served the Lord Jesus most of their lives and get into retirement and wonder what God has in store for them now. They feel like failures and useless as society tends to cast them aside. The modern USA culture promotes youth and vitality as the only people worthwhile in society. Senior citizens need to realize this and focus on being useful for the kingdom of God. Focus on Christ and not the world for your goals and satisfaction in life. J. Oswald Chambers gives you a tremendous reminder when he says, “Beethoven composed some of his most glorious musical works toward the end of his life when he was completely deaf. Milton wrote some of his most magnificent poetry during his last years of blindness. The world would have been greatly impoverished had there been no Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and no Paradise Lost.”
The apostle Paul is nearing the end of his life. His martyrdom is eminent. In the last epistle he wrote as some of his dying words, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith” (2 Tim. 4:7). In other words, Paul says that he started well, he stayed faithful to Christ, and now while in prison chained he will finish well.
Start the marathon of the Christian life well, stay close to Jesus as you continue the race, and then as life closes in on you at the end stay strong. Your biggest accomplishments for serving Jesus may just come to you in your twilight years
