NEVER TOO OLD

You're never too old to be of some service to others. Living among a lot of Q-Tips (white hair and tennis shoes) here at Palm Creek, I know a few folks here who struggle with feelings of worth, perhaps even feeling useless at times. And older folks aren't always the only ones to feel that way.

If you've been heading down that road, consider the London Bridge. This 930 foot long granite bridge was originally built over the Thames River in 1831. When London traffic began sinking it in the 1960s, the bridge was scheduled for demolition until Robert McCullough bought it for $2.5 million and had its ten thousand bricks moved 7,000 miles to western Arizona. After being put together as the world's largest jigsaw puzzle in the newly incorporated Lake Havasu City, it once again has autos crossing it and pedestrians enjoying its quaint beauty. Something that was headed for the scrap heap found a new use in life.

It's rather like the story of Sarah from Brown Manor. With her physical limitations at the "old folks home," she found little useful to do each day. But she could still play the piano, and she often lead other women there in singing hymns and praises. One day a government auditor conducting a routine inspection heard them singing, "What Will You Do With Jesus." Hearing this hymn he'd learned in Sunday School, he was led by Holy Spirit to realize his mistake in abandoning his faith. That night he prayed to follow Jesus Christ once again. Sarah of Brown Manor would never have known her song helped him eternally, had he not told her months later.

In Genesis 18, another woman named Sarah long ago thought she was too old to be useful to God. But we know now she was mistaken. True to His promise, God gave her a child at age 90, and her son Isaac became the ancestor of our Lord Jesus. Like Sarah of the Old Testament and Sarah of Brown Manor, we're never too old for God to use us in some good way.

Sometimes it happens without our knowing it!