Anti-Aging Power – Part 2
As noted yesterday, when we put our hope and trust in the Lord, we are carried along by His strength and not our own. Like Isaiah, David also used the analogy of the eagle when he stated in the Psalms, “Bless the Lord, O my soul…Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s” (Psalm 103:1,5).
Are we taking advantage of God’s anti-aging power? It is promised to all who put their confidence in Him for strength of heart, vigour of spirit, and energy of soul. Through the exercise of spiritual energy and purpose of heart we can, with youthful vitality, “run with patience [endurance] the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1).
To be renewed with spiritual energy there needs to be spiritual exercise. Notice what the Apostle Paul tells a young man named Timothy; “Exercise thyself…unto godliness. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come” (1 Timothy 4:7-8). What are we doing to keep spiritually fit?
Continued…
