· Song: Where Did All the Time Go?Listen: Where Did All the Time Go?, a song by Everett Wayne Baum
Middle Age
Middle age often brings a strange realization: much of what once seemed far in the future has already happened. Children may be grown and parents may be aging. Careers are established, and physical strength begins to change. Somewhere along the way, without much notice, things changed.
What Scripture Says
“So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12)
“But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” (1 Timothy 5:8)
Titus 2 shows the importance of older believers teaching those who are coming along behind them.
Practical Advice
Take an honest look at your life. Is your marriage healthy? Are your relationships with your children strong?
Let go of unforgiveness you have carried too long. It has cost you more than it has cost them.
Ask whether work has crowded out the Lord.
Pay down unnecessary debt and strengthen your retirement savings.
Take your health more seriously. Small changes now make a big difference later.
Keep medical, financial, insurance and legal papers organized in one place.
Talk with your spouse about retirement rather than assuming you both picture the same future.
Look after your aging parents. They took care of you once.
Start pouring into younger people. Someone needs what you have learned.
From My Own Life
This part is still being written.
A Question to Think About
If the next twenty years go as fast as the last twenty, what do you want to have done with them?
The lesson for this season: Use what life has taught you instead of merely remembering what life has taken from you.
Go deeper: Class 29 – Numbering Our Days · Book: At Some Point Things Changed · Song: Where Did All the Time Go?