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“Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:16).
Most of you who are reading this calendar are probably young people, and are in good health. But as we get older, our bodies start to become weaker, and we experience what can be called “degenerative diseases.” This means that we are not really sick, but that we begin to have things like arthritis, high blood pressure, shortness of breath if we exert ourselves, and aches and pains that we never had before. Another one of these things is a dementia, or perhaps something more serious called Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia is when we cannot remember things very well, and Alzheimer’s disease is more serious, where people start to think in strange patterns.
Perhaps you have seen people like this, and it is hard to have a good conversation with them. I remember a man who had this problem, and if I talked about everyday things, he got confused. But as long as I talked about the Lord’s things, and the Bible, he was fine, and all his conversation was perfectly normal. His “outward man” was perishing, but his “inward man” — the spiritual man, was being renewed day by day. How impressive it is to see this!
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