Acting your Age!

It’s a official today. I am slowly approaching the half century mark of life. The time when many of us men began to think to ourselves the old cliche,

“Time to slow down, and act my age.”

Bring us to the question of the day,

What does someone our age act like?

Apostle Paul tells us 1 Corinthians 13:11 about he put childish away as a man. Be did not anything about changing from a young man to an old man, with the exception of teaching the younger men.

Who’s definition of acting our age should we follow, the World’s or God’s? Glad you asked.

Any Christian man or woman would say God’s definition of course, right?

After all Scriptures are chuck full of great role models for us all, and of course the best of all our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.

For instance,

Joshua 14:10 tells us that Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, was the age 85 & still as vigorous as he ever was, pretty cool huh? It should noted that the Scriptures does not reveal that God touched Caleb in any extra special way either.

So here is a older man that can teach us younger men a valuable lesson. He relied on God for his provisions & followed His guidance. Caleb as well as the other Israelites stayed active.

As always the answers of life are found in Scripture.

“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.”_ 1 Corinthians 13:11 

“Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! ¹¹ I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then.”_ Joshua 14:10