So how do we continue on when this life feels pointless?

Like when we are treading water and just feels like we're passing time until this life

is over.

It's a raw and honest question from Fred, an older gentleman who does not give us his exact

age, but Fred wrote us to say this, Pastor John, I avoid the thought because I don't want

to go down this path, but deep within me I long for death, because it will release me

from what I consider so far to be a pretty joyless life.

The joyful moments of relationship with God seem to be few and far between now, and it

just seems like my life is really just a matter of passing time until Jesus either returns

or calls me home.

What advice can you give me?

I feel really exhausted.

The first thing I want to say to Fred is that growing weary with this world in old age

is normal and good.

It's normal because our energy is being depleted by age and it's good because in this broken

world Christians are not really at home.

Our citizenship is in heaven and we are designed as new creatures in Christ for a new heaven

and a new earth with glorified bodies, so don't be too hard on yourself for feeling

weariness with this old worn out dying corrupt world.

You were made for something better and it is coming.

But what is sinful is letting our weariness become cynical or hopeless or joyless or meaningless.

So let me try to help Fred by just mentioning five or six things that might be an encouragement

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