Those who were alive when that song came out, would not have listened to it when it did, if it were not from the artist who wrote and release it. Yet, now our aged generation still can sing at least part of The Beatles’ 1967 St. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band song. That now aged generation will relate more to verses 9-13 than the younger generations. Still, all can learn from it.
Aging is more than physical changes. We also gain knowledge as we age, how much of it is helpful depends on our preoccupations and life decisions. We should also be wiser, but I see that some remain mostly unchanged then they were in the 1970s. Some have come into a personal loving and forgiving relation with Jesus, as I did at a relatively young age and grown wiser.
Another unexpected change is people die; family, friends, neighbors, acquittances, politicians, enemies, and coworkers. Yet, as enemies go, new ones arise. For the elderly author of this psalm, new enemies rose. They saw him old and weak. They believed since his strength and youth were gone, he could be pursued and seized. They saw him as easy prey. However, the author’s strength has always been his God, even when he was young and strong. So, as before, the author cries out, “Come quickly, O my God, to help me.” The old man and woman of faith can be stronger than the young fool.
