Trusting God as you get older on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the

problems that people face. Our guest on the podcast this week is Dr. Wayne Mack, a member of the

Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, actually a charter member of the Association of Certified

Biblical Counselors. He has been a counselor at the Christian Counseling and

Educational Foundation. He was a faculty member at the Masters College, now the Master's

University, and he is currently the director of Strategic Ministries Training Institute

in South Africa. We're glad that Dr. Mack is here, and he's here to talk to us about a problem that everyone

will experience sooner or later if the Lord gives them years, and it's the problem of getting

older.

Dr. Mack, we're glad you're with us, and I want to ask you, what are some of the unique

challenges that come into a person's life as they begin to get older?

Well, they certainly are described to some extent in Ecclesiastes Chapter 12,

where the Bible says, remember your creator in the days of your youth before the evil days come. And in the context,

the evil days that's talking about are not immoral days, sinful days, but the word evil is used

in two sentences in the Bible. One is in terms of moral evil, and the other is in terms of calamity or disaster or catastrophe or

unpleasant things and that's what this passage is talking about when it says there are evil days

that are coming and the years draw near when you will say, I have no delight in them.

In other words, you don't enjoy yourself.

You don't enjoy your life nearly as much as you did previously.

You lose hope.

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