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Biblical Guidance for Mid-Life: Aging, Challenges, and Renewal

Discover biblical wisdom and guidance to navigate the challenges of mid-life, including the aging of the body, the battle with cynicism, and the importance of relationships and responsibilities. Find comfort, renewal, and purpose in this transformative stage of life.

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Biblical Guidance for Mid-Life: Aging, Challenges, and Renewal

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  1. “I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that …” MID-LIFE

  2. “…no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end. I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, and also that every man should…” MID-LIFE

  3. “…eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God. Ecclesiastes 3:10-13 MID-LIFE

  4. Biblical Guidance Through the MID-LIFE

  5. 30 100 15? 50, 60? Mid-life = period after younger adulthood (after parenting)—prior to old age. Mid-Life

  6. Challenges of Mid-Life Life Turned Out Different

  7. “If a man reaches forty and yet is disliked by his fellows, he will be so to the end” Confucius Analects, vol. ix, bk. 17. ch. 26

  8. Challenges of Mid-Life Life Turned Out Different Aging of the Body

  9. Hercules in Mid-Life “You began better than you end; your last deeds yield to your first; the man you are and the child you were are not the same” Ovid, Heroides, epist. ix, l. 24

  10. Challenges of Mid-Life Life Turned Out Different Aging of the Body The Battle with Cynicism

  11. “Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the difficult days come, And the years draw near when you say, ‘I have no pleasure in them.’” Ecclesiastes 12:1 MID-LIFE

  12. “At fifty one can no longer love” Napolean Bonaparte, To GaspardGourgaud, April 7th, 1817 While exiled on St. Helena

  13. Challenges of Mid-Life Life Turned Out Different Aging of the Body The Battle with Cynicism Relationships and Responsibilities

  14. “Youth is a blunder, Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret” Benjamin Disraeli Coningsby, bk iii, ch 1 MID-LIFE

  15. Biblical Guidance for Mid-Life Renewal of the inward man – 2 Corinthians 4:16 1 “Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.”

  16. “Perishing” • Greek word diaphtheiro, when used in reference to material things, can refer to decay and wearing away. • What moths do to clothing or rust does to metal. • Our bodies are running down. • The text says of the “inward man”—it is “being renewed day by day.”

  17. “Grow up as soon as you can. It pays. The only time you live fully is from thirty to sixty… The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.” Harvey Allen, Anthony Adverse, ch. 31 MID-LIFE

  18. “Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation…” 2 Peter 3:14-15 MID-LIFE

  19. “You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.” 2 Peter 3:17-18 MID-LIFE

  20. Biblical Guidance for Mid-Life Salvation is Nearer Now – Romans 13:11-12 2 “And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.”

  21. When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange—my youth Sara Teasdale Wisdom

  22. “Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever” 1 Peter 1:22-23 MID-LIFE

  23. Biblical Guidance for Mid-Life Rejoice in the Lord Always – Philippians 4:4-5 3 “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.”

  24. “Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used until they are seasoned” Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, VI

  25. “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” 2 Corinthians 4:17 MID-LIFE

  26. “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” Romans 8:18 MID-LIFE

  27. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.” 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 MID-LIFE

  28. Biblical Guidance for Mid-Life One Must Provide for His Own – 1 Timothy 5:8 4 “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.”

  29. “It is usual to associate age with years only because so many men and women somewhere along in what is called middle age stop trying” Henry Ford

  30. “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” Mark 8:36 MID-LIFE

  31. Biblical Guidance for Mid-Life This World is Passing Away – 1 Cor. 7:29-31 5 “But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice…”

  32. Biblical Guidance for Mid-Life This World is Passing Away – 1 Cor. 7:29-31 5 “…those who buy as though they did not possess, and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away.”

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