December 1, 2014
I feel very sad anytime I see an elderly person
doing hard labors. With my cultural background, we were trained to always
assist old people when doing hard labor, but they are just too much these days,
I wish I had a home to take care of them, because if I have to be carrying
their loads for them, then mine might be left undone. We were also taught that,
whoever plays his or her youthful age away would end up serving his or her
peers. With this last statement, one could easily conclude that anyone still
hustling at age 70 and above must have played his youth away.
Well, we might be right and we might be wrong,
especially going by the words of the wise man in Ecc 9:11 that, “The race is
not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise,
nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but
time and chance happeneth to them all.” However, my take is that the best time
to take care of today was yesterday, and the best time to take of tomorrow is
today. Jesus said in John 9:4 that, “I must work the works of him that sent me,
while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.”
Lam 3:27 says, “It is good for a man that he bear
the yoke in his youth.” The message translation says, “It’s a good thing when
you are young, to stick it out through the hard times.” This is the time to
work. Even the scripture says he that doesn’t work should eat. I guess that is
why those who refuse to work end up begging to eat. Whatsoever your hands
findeth to do, sir/ma, do it with all thine might.
Someone asked me when things would become better. I
told him, as long as you keep doing the good, it will become better one day.
Don’t be tired!
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