In the Time of Old Age

“Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.” (Psalm 71:9)

The only thing one must do to get old is just hang around. The aging process affects everyone. From the day a child is born the process begins. True, a child grows larger and stronger in a short time. But, even then we have milestones called birthdays. We can barely wait until that sixteenth birthday when we can get our driver’s license. But because the aging process continues, in about fifty or sixty years from obtaining our license someone suggests that we should stop driving because we are too old. 

Dad Speer of the singing Speer Family had a song called, “Time Has Made a Change in Me.” When he was young he could climb the trees, run up and down the hills, work all day and never get tired. But, “time has made a change,” he said.

The Psalmist knows about that change. His strength was failing because he was getting old and so he requests that God not cast him off in the time of old age. And, “forsake me not when my strength fails.” God has made a promise that He will never leave us nor forsake us. We will definitely change with age, but our God is ageless and changeless. Trust Him as old age continues to weaken you.