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Middle Age and Spirituality
 
I am actually an AARP member, but I do not plan to be elderly until perhaps 66 – or whenever my wife says… Things do not work as well as they used to work and I take more pills that I read books or watch TV shows, yet our Lord is making me a better man!
 
How, He is teaching me dependence all over again. I once learned to wait for the right wife. I eventually learned to wait for the right church. Now I am learning that I am even more dependent than I thought that I would be this side of heaven. 
 
Do not misunderstand. I always have known that God keeps me alive each day. My confidence in heaven is based solely upon the work of Jesus Christ, my Savior Lord.
 
Yet God is making more and more dependent upon both Him and His people. I do not understand how most people can live without a church family. It must be hard. This dependence has made me a better Pastor and Preacher. I have always loved people – I was the kind of young preacher who had a hard time understanding why some folks decided that they would be against me before they knew me. Yet now I know how much I need their love – in both word and deed.
 
Dependence takes away worry. If I can rely upon God, I need not worry. Think Philippians 2. So now I am learning not to worry about our health, our retirement, and who will help us – we have no children. Yes, He can take care of us – He always has, He always will. There is a song by a similar name on an Avalon CD which encourages me.
 
This is one of those truths that we need to continually relearn. Perhaps it should simply travel with us through the stages of our life, but many of us are enfeebled and we must learn again and again.
 
Pastor John