Too Old

My convenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. - Genesis 17:4


When God promised Abraham and his wife Sarah that they would have a son, Abraham laughed in unbelief and replied, "Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?" (Gen. 17:17).

Later, Sarah laughed for the same reason: "After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my ord being old also?" (18:12).

We too grow old and wonder is the Lord can fulfill His promise to us. We no longer have prominence or status. Our minds are not as nimble as they once were. We're hampered by physical problems that limit our mobility and kep us close to home. Every day we seem to lose more of the things we have spent a lifetime acquiring. Robert Frost underscores something that we sometimes ask ourselves: "The question... is what to make a diminished thing."

Not much - if we left to ourselves. But God is able to do more with us than we can imagine. He asks us, as He asked Sarah, "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" (18:14), Of course not!

We're never too old to be useful if we make ourselves available to God for His purposes. - David H. Roper


Growing old but not retiring,
For the battle still is on;
Going on without relenting
Till the final victory's won. - Anon

As God adds years to your life, ask Him to add life to your years.

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Genesis 17:15-22

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?" Abraham said to God, "Oh that is Ishmael might live before you!"

God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Issac. I will establish my convenant with him for an everlasting convenant for his seed after him.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

But my convenant I establish with Issac, whom Sarah will bear you at this set time in the next year." When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

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Sometimes we will get into a logic mind set... that may block whatever work from God... We all knew that He is powerful and also nothing is impossible to him... so what are we looking of?... thinking of what?... He will surely answer us when we ask... as long as we all do have faith on Him...

Just ask, and you shall be answer...