After our very pretty waitress left our table this evening my wife said, “How I wish I could stay like that and yet still have my current brain.” One of the joys of youth is you don’t know what you don’t know; therefore, you think you know when you really don’t. The result being that you are quite happy.
When I left the seminary I was an absolute authority in the area of theology. After all, I had an MA in Systematic Theology. What else would someone need to be a pastor? Lots. I just didn’t know. Now decades later my knowledge of God has lessened. He is bigger and grander than I knew. However, don’t misunderstand me. I don’t want that twenty year old brain. I just want my twenty year old strength.
What Jesus promised in John 5:24, “. . . whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life . . .” is what my wife was wishing for. Jesus is promising eternal youth with a never ending growing mind. The concept is overwhelming. Best of all there will not be any senior moments. Oh those are frightening things greatly to be abhorred. We can be talking about someone we have known for decades and both of us cannot recall the person’s name, that is until we stop trying and then it pops right up. What’s with that?
How can we explain senior moments to young people? They think it is just us and it will never ever happen to them. Boy, are they in for a surprise. Or they think, “Well that is a long time away.” No, that’s not true either. Years become months and weeks become days. Jesus is not just a good idea. Jesus is a necessity!
Written by Roger Bothwell on August 7, 2013
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