One thing not realized is when you’re young you will start aging. Your mind and spirit remain young your insides feel young, but your youngness spirit looks at the world through the eyes of an aging shell 48 years later. If you live to see 48 and we feel the same as we always have on the inside. We have more or less the same hopes and dreams and wishes and desires as we had when we were young. Our insides stay young. It’s just the outside that becomes old and frail. And as we become older, we become invisible, and insignificant. We realize that more of our life is behind us than in front of us. Let’s pay homage to what lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. I asked an elderly man once what it was like to be old and to know the majority of his life was behind him. He told me that he has been the same age his entire life. He said the voice inside of his head had never aged. He has always just been the same boy. His mother’s son. He had always wondered when he would grow up and be an old man. He said he watched his body age and his faculties dull but the person he is inside never got tired. Never aged. Never changed. Our spirits and souls are eternal forever. The next time you encounter an elderly person, look at them and know they are still a child, just as you are still a child and children will always need love, attention, and purpose.
God Lesson?
Looking in the mirror James 1:22-25 uses the metaphor of a mirror to describe interacting with God’s Word. It warns that merely hearing the Word without acting on it is like seeing your reflection—including “wrinkles” or flaws—and immediately forgetting it. Instead, believers are called to be doers of the Word, studying it to live out its message. Don’t look in the mirror at your physical self and then walk away if you didn’t see yourself.
