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As you consider the story Dr. Crabb related about his elderly parents, discuss the concept of bankrupt foolishness and what the final years of life might look like when guided by the Spirit’s wisdom instead.
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Bankrupt foolishness is walking through this life without the Spirit, walking in the foolishness that has built up over the years. When we have the Spirit as we walk through these years, we have a purpose in this life. We know that our task in this life is to do the best we can, but be guided by the Spirit. We aren’t in it on our own!
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Bankrupt Foolishness is to try to live your latter life as you lived your life in your twenties, thirties, and so forth.
But it’s not the way an elderly person should even consider living because everything in your life has changed by this time, and so should. The way you think about life and the way you prepare for eternity, should not be by acknowledging or indulging in the fickleness of our flesh being guided by sin. -
The final years of life may be one of challenges and struggle, but guided by the Spirit’s wisdom, they can be spent learning more of who God is and of seeing his love and his provision in our difficulties. Most of all, because of who God is to us during our earthly journey, we will have the certain hope of the life that awaits us after going through the doorway of death and enter heaven.
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The final years are a result of what your mind has fixated upon over time, if you are able to keep its capacities. If the fixation has been upon “second things”, upon their removal, or inability to satisfy, irritation and distress become the markers of your later years. If your fixed mark has been upon Christ, who can always ultimately satisfy, and whose spirit no one can remove: later years can be one’s of light in spite of Death’s shadow.
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My mother is aged 95 years old. She prays automatically when awakened from sleep, her spirituality alert.
Her mind and body diminishing in strength and awareness, nevertheless she is a saint. I would hope to be like her in my later years.Physical desires, esp. for food, strong (and forgetful of having eaten), granted, yet if you walk with the Lord consistently, you will have His joy and Hope in the later years, contrary to bankrupt foolishness.