Remember Now
“O Lord God: Thou art my trust from my youth”
(Psalm 71:5).
You will not always be in the days of your youth! As seasons come and go — winter, spring, summer, autumn — as earth pursues its long journey around the sun, as birthdays are brought to somebody every morning, those bright and hopeful days of youth are left further and further behind. The days when your youth and vibrancy have faded are slowly but surely coming nearer and nearer.
The time when you will be known as an old person is, of course, a long way off — perhaps you do not think about it at all. But the Preacher (Solomon) thought about it, and we should think about it as well. So Solomon wrote, “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them” (Ecclesiastes 12:1).
If you want to be happy in old age and be able to sing the songs of heaven, rejoicing in the Lord Jesus Christ, “remember NOW thy Creator!”
