You reach a time in your life where the young years are gone and the senior years seem near. Those young, energetic years, are a thing of the past. You are beginning to notice a few aches and pains. When you do outside work or strenuous sports and exercises, the next day you pay for it. That body of yours just does not hold up like it did when you were younger.
The Farmer’s Almanac has some good information in it. Within its covers was a quote that rings true: “Middle age is the time when work begins to be a lot less fun and fun begins to be a lot more work.” Ha! Ha! You chuckle, not because it is so funny, but because it is so true. Middle aged people find it more and more difficult to do the work that just a few years ago was no problem at all. Then, on the other end of the spectrum, the activities that were so much fun, now are difficult, if not impossible, to do.
The Holy Bible discusses those middle-aged times of your life. Being the realistic Book that it is, it gives you a road map to follow while you are on your earthly pilgrimage. Wise words for you that are in the mid-life stage of life: “Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day” (2 Cor. 4:16). It says that “our outer man is decaying.” You are wise to realize that. So many people find it hard to accept that today they are not that youthful person they were in the past. Once you realize that, the verse tells you exactly what to do – “do not lose heart.” The reason for that is because your spiritual life “is being renewed day by day.” Although physically you are decaying, spiritually you are growing.
You are in that mid-life area of your life, but there is encouragement. Your spiritual being “is being renewed day by day.” Yes, you are maturing spiritually. That is God’s remedy for that mid-life crisis!
