What's it like "being old"?

Lost · #1 08-13-2007, 02:43 PM

Just curious, as I haven't gotten there yet.

Any thoughts?

Felicity · #2 08-13-2007, 02:47 PM

I don't know either. We'll have to wait for the "old" folks to fill us in. Hehe.

Sherri · #3 08-13-2007, 02:49 PM

Well, 50 is the new 30!!! I feel young and am rarin' to go!

Felicity · #4 08-13-2007, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Sherri

Well, 50 is the new 30!!! I feel young and am rarin' to go!

Sounds about right to me.

And we've got the experience that 30 year olds (numerically speaking) don't have to go with that which can only be a GOOD thing!

Dedicated Mind · #5 08-13-2007, 02:59 PM

As I get older, I ponder what awaits me at death and if all this prophecy stuff is gonna come true and WHEN? I have been born again and have spoken in tongues many times, but I am anxious for all of the prophecies to come true and wonder if they will in my lifetime. Is God waiting for apostolics to go on satellite and evangelize the world or for the world to degenirate into wickedness, or both?

Felicity · #6 08-15-2007, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

As I get older, I ponder what awaits me at death and if all this prophecy stuff is gonna come true and WHEN? I have been born again and have spoken in tongues many times, but I am anxious for all of the prophecies to come true and wonder if they will in my lifetime. Is God waiting for apostolics to go on satellite and evangelize the world or for the world to degenirate into wickedness, or both?

You know I remember sitting in church as a child and wondering if the Lord would return by the time I was 17. I don't know why I chose 17 but I did. LOL.

Well i'm way past 17 and He still hasn't returned but I'm still looking forward to that. I'd love to be translated out of this mess.

pelathais · #7 08-15-2007, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

As I get older, I ponder what awaits me at death and if all this prophecy stuff is gonna come true and WHEN? I have been born again and have spoken in tongues many times, but I am anxious for all of the prophecies to come true and wonder if they will in my lifetime. Is God waiting for apostolics to go on satellite and evangelize the world or for the world to degenirate into wickedness, or both?

DM - forgive me at the outset if I sound condescending, but you do sound a lot like I used to sound - before I got "old" or at least "older."

The whole focus of my walk with Christ was wrapped up in the Dispensational approach to Bible prophecy and I became something of an "expert" (other people's word, not my own) on the subject.

What I have found now that I'm starting to push up against 50 is that I missed a whole lot of life and living by being so absorbed with the endtimes stuff. As Apostolics we tended to place less importance on the "here and now" and always looked forward to everyone else suffering the wrath we figured they deserved.

Now all of that seems so shallow to me. I wish that I had spent more time just encouraging "sinners" with life affirming messages than with dire warnings of a doom I could not predict. I think that I would have had a greater impact in more lives that way, and more to show for it today.