To the End of the Age

March 23

Everyone desires to have a mentor, a parent in the Lord on whom to lean for advice, for encouragement, for partnership in prayer in times of distress or anxiety. Nobody wants to face life’s uncertainties alone. For the support we need, we turn to those whose lives have demonstrated faithful resolve through their own difficult times.

We turn to the one who introduced us to the household of faith. We seek the prayers of a minister of the Lord who has nourished us in the faith through the years of our walk. We turn to our sisters and brothers who have stood beside in in prayer through our difficult hour.

One of the unfortunate things about growing older is that many of those bulwarks of faith who, through our Christian walk, have been there for us, have gone on to their glorious eternal reward. We know they are among that great cloud of witnesses who encourage us from Heaven, but they are no longer near at hand in our time of need.

Rather than feel alone, the elderly saint of God must remember that the One who was their Source is still near, is still abiding within his own heart. He must know, “As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him” Psalm 103:13. His presence, His power are ever ‘there,’ even to the end of the age.