“Wisdom is with aged men, and with length of days, understanding”

Job 12:12

Biblical Guidance Biblical Guidance Through theThrough the

“I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread.”

Psalms 37:25

“…I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up…”

“…for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing”

2 Timothy 4:6-8

Facing Disrespect

Challenges of Old Challenges of Old AgeAge

“You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence

of an old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.”

Leviticus 19:2

“Go up, you baldhead!” 2 Kings 2:23

“So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them

in the name of the LORD. And two female bears came out of the woods and

mauled forty-two of the youths.”

2 Kings 2:24.

Grow old along with me!The best is yet to be,The last of life, for which the first was made:Our times are in his handWho saith, “A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!”

Robert Browning

Facing Disrespect

“Good ‘Ole Days” vs. The Present

Challenges of Old Challenges of Old AgeAge

“A person by living long sees many

things that he does not want.”

Cicero, From De Senectute

“On Old Age”Quoting Caecilius

“Do not say, ‘Why were the former days better than these?’ For you do not inquire wisely concerning this”

Ecclesiastes 7:10

Facing Disrespect

“Good ‘Ole Days” vs. The Present

Loneliness and Neglect

Challenges of Ols AgeChallenges of Ols Age

“…If any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God.”

1 Timothy 5:4

“For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say, “If a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban’— (that is, a gift to God),” then you no longer let him do anything …”

“…for his father or his mother, making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do”

Mark 7:10-13

“Children’s children are the crown of old men, And the glory of children is their father”

Proverbs 17:6

Facing Disrespect

“Good ‘Ole Days” vs. The Present

Loneliness and Neglect

Challenges of Ols AgeChallenges of Ols Age

Aging Gracefully

“The nearer death’s day, the more old men should play”

Anaceron Odes, Ode vii, 1.9, Stevenson

William Wordsworth

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky;So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old.

Or let me die!The Child is father of the Man; And could I wish my days to beBound each to each by natural piety.

“When you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish”

John 21:18

Offer Wisdom Anyway – Job 12:121

Biblical Guidance for Old Biblical Guidance for Old AgeAge

“Wisdom is with aged men, And with length of days, understanding.”

“You take all the experience and

judgment of men over fifty out of the

world and there wouldn’t be enough

left to run it”

Henry Ford

“Early adulthood is naturally rash;

sound sense only comes with

advancing years”

Cicero, De Senectute

“The silver-haired head is a crown of glory, If it is found in the way of righteousness”

Proverbs 16:31

Be Willing to Listen to the Young – Ecc. 4:132

Biblical Guidance for Old Biblical Guidance for Old AgeAge

“Better a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more.”

“I said, ‘Age should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.’ But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding. Great men are not always wise, Nor do the aged always understand justice. Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me, I also will declare my opinion.’”

Job 32:7-10

“When the waitress puts the dinner on

the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young

men look at the waitress.”

Burgess, Look Eleven Years Younger, pg. 174

“Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion”

Romans 12:16

“Youth supplies us with color, age with canvass”

H. D. Thoreau, Winter, January 26, 1852

Stay Busy in Service – Titus 2:1,23

Biblical Guidance for Old Biblical Guidance for Old AgeAge

“But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience.”

“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.” President James

Garfield

“I never hear of an old man forgetting

where he buried his money! Old people

remember what interests them…”

Cicero, De Senectute

Keep Being an Example – 1 Peter 5:54

Biblical Guidance for Old Biblical Guidance for Old AgeAge

“Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for ‘God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.’”

“The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those who are planted in the house of the LORD Shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing, To declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.”

Psalms 92:12-15

The Bridge Builderby Will Allen Dromgoole

An old man going a lone highwayCame at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm vast and wide and steep, With waters rolling cold and deep.The old man crossed in the twilight

dim, The sullen stream had no fears for him; But he turned when safe on the other

side,And built a bridge to span the tide.

The Bridge Builderby Will Allen Dromgoole

“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near, “You are wasting your strength with

building here.Your journey will end with the ending

of day,You never again will pass this way.You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and

wide,Why build you this bridge at eventide?”

The Bridge Builderby Will Allen Dromgoole

The builder lifted his old gray head.“Good friend, the path I have come,” he

said,“There followeth after me todayA youth whose feet must pass this way.The chasm that was as nought to meTo that fair-haired youth may a pitfall

be;He, too, must cross in the twighlight

dim-Good friend I am building this bridge for

him”