Growing old is not easy, when you consider that our physical bodies deteriorate and we simply fall apart. When we age we lose certain functions. Our vision fades, our joints ache, and even short walks become an unwelcome chore.

As an aging follow of Christ, don’t think you are any less valuable to the Lord or the Kingdom of God because time has crippled you. You may wish you had done more for the Lord in your youth, but it is not too late in your agedness. As long as you can speak, write, or have the opportunity, share the good news that God has put in your heart.

Our heart’s cry ought to be with the psalmist who said, “Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth…O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help…But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more” (Psalm 71:9-14).

So if you need a little encouragement, I came across a gospel song on YouTube by a Bill Gaither gathering and I say, look it up. Go to YouTube and look up this song, it’s called “The Lord Still Lives in This Old House” and it’s sung by J.D. Sumner. Below I shared the lyrics for you, too. Enjoy, and be encouraged.

The Lord Still Lives in This Old House

J.D. Sumner

If this earthly tabernacle
should be dissolved today
I’d trade it for a finer one,
that would not pass away.

But till the day arrives when
it’s time for moving out
Tis such sweet peace to know the Lord
still lives in this old house.

The sweetest fellowship I’ve
known has fortified these walls
And peace has reigned since he’s been
walking up and down these halls.
with snow upon the rooftop now
and these hinges near worn out
It’s such a joy to know the Lord
still lives in this old house.

To him it’s been a dwelling place
where he kept my hand in his
To me a home away from home
is all it really is.
It sure ain’t fine and fancy
and all I can boast about

Is after all these years the Lord
still lives in this old house.
Now there were times he had the
right, just to up and move away

And there were times and days I knew
it took God’s amazing grace to stay.
But he never left this old building
once, that’s why I can sing and shout
Cause after all these years the
Lord still lives in this old house.
To him it’s been a dwelling place
where he kept my hand in his
To me a home away from home,
is all it really is.

And it sure ain’t fine and fancy
and all that I can boast about
Is after all the years the Lord
still lives in this old house.
After all these years the Lord …
Still lives in this old house.