“Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.” (Psalm 71:13)
It has been said that Satan has no happy old people. They have come to the twilight years having ignored the redemptive message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They have often belittled, scorned and rebuked those who walk with God. These aged Christ-ignorers now see the joy in the lives of their Christian acquaintances. Those unhappy old folks now envision a Christ-less eternity that matches their Christ-less existence on earth. They come to the end with fear.
The old psalmist is not calling down heaven’s fury on them. He is simply saying, “Let it happen as they have chosen.” I think of Joshua’s message in his farewell address: “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15)
While Satan has no happy old people, God has no unhappy old people who have chosen wisely as Joshua did and as our psalmist did.
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