REDEEM the SECOND HALF of YOUR LIFE - Psalm 71

Though many fear it and fight it, old age still manages to creeps upon us. It seems that we are young, then we feel young and we fight to be young and then, with no warning one day we wake up and somehow, it has arrived. Why do some look at growing older with such dread? That’s not hard to answer. We fear to lose our youthful looks, figure, and strength. We are anxious about maintaining our health and the growing inability to do what we used to do. The incentive to fear old age is the troubles, problems, and insecurity that accompanies it. The psalmist has grown old in the service of the Lord and now, in Psalm 71, he addresses God with his anxieties about getting older. 

In the classic commentary, Jamieson -Fausett and Brown we read, “It is probably best to think of this psalm in terms of what it says, rather than it’s outline.” I concur with their assessment but confess, once again, the influence of Dr. James M. Boice on my thinking regarding how to capture this psalm in an outline.