They will still bear fruit in old age. Psalm 92, verse 14.

Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. Still fruitful for God was written by

John Blaze and read by Stephen Tabor. Psalm 92, verses 12 through 15.

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree.

They will grow like a cedar of Lebanon, planted in the house of the Lord.

They will flourish in the courts of our God.

They will still bear fruit in old age. They will stay fresh and green,

proclaiming, the Lord is upright. He is my rock, and there is no wickedness in him.

Still fruitful for God by John Blaze.

There's an old folk tale about a woman who carried water home every day from a river using two buckets at either end of a long pole.

One bucket, new and solid, the other much older and cracked.

When the woman got home, the new bucket was still full, but the old bucket almost empty.

The old bucket felt bad and apologized.

The woman turned and pointed back down the road and asked the old bucket,

Do you see all those flowers growing on your side of the road and asked the old bucket, do you see all those flowers growing on your

side of the road? Every day you water them, and my walk to and from the river is always filled with

beauty. We live in a world that worships and rewards youth, the young and solid, unscarred, and efficient.

Yet, the Bible clearly tells us of a righteous beauty that comes from the older and weaker,

maybe even the cracked and leaky.

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, said the old songwriter in Psalm 92.

They will grow like a cedar of Lebanon.

Granted, old is not always synonymous with wise, but the old contribute to our lives in ways the

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