People are obsessed with youthfulness.

We live in a world where most are avoiding all signs of ageing as much as possible. Staying as young as you can for as long as you can seems to be the ultimate goal. However, while ageing is inevitable and death is sure it’s not avoidable. 

So how we embrace our ageing makes all the difference in how we live each day. Realisation of the brevity of life should not make us despondent, but inspire us to focus on eternal and spiritual things to make each day count.

In the View of Christian life: size of days, Health, and consequently life, relies upon most on habit. What shortens lifeis folly, irregularity,  anxiety, sorrow. Christian Principles defend them. What lengthens existence is purity, temperance, serenity, and cheerfulness of spirit; Christian ideas are a safety for these. 

How many times will you wake up and feel the breath in your lungs? How long will the oxygen make you thrive? Do you think about it? I do..

How we need humbling! Against the background of eternity, what does it matter whether we live to seventy or eighty, or even 150? Where does my feeling of self-importance come from? Every day that passes I am reminded of the fragility of life. 

Christian life tends to preserve the childlike heart in the aged man. 

A beautiful object is a “green old age;” an excellent thing it is when “he that is a hundred years old dies a youth.” The best preservative of freshness of spirit, openness of mind, youthfulness of heart, is an unselfish habit. This will keep the heart of youth in the form of age. 

A Christian promise that points to the long future. “The shorter life, the earlier immortality.”