Well, so much of this podcast has been dedicated to chronic pain and aging and learning to live life amidst mounting sorrows in the later years.

Dozens and dozens of episodes cover this.

Episodes I've done my very best to catalog for you and to digest for you

so that you can fully appreciate the ground that's been covered. See the APJ book if you have it

close on pages 365 to 394. It's a huge section, pages 365 to 394 because there's so much to

cover. And we're back to the theme today in this question from Austin.

Hello, Pastor John.

I thank God for your ministry, which has been a great encouragement to me over the years.

I'm seeking advice from scripture on how to trust God when it feels like my best years are behind me.

Nine years ago, God blessed me with my dream job, and my wife and I had the incredible opportunity to go on a mission strip to Japan, a country we love dearly.

Life was full of excitement and I was eager to see what God would do next.

However, that job ended several years ago.

We haven't returned to Japan and my health has declined significantly.

Now I'm wrestling with feelings of depression and apathy about where my life has landed. How can I find

joy and satisfaction knowing that physically, vocationally, ministerially, things may never be

as good as they once were? How can I continue to trust God in the midst of this season of loss and uncertainty?

Here's the short answer.

And then I'll give a longer one.

And trust me, Austin, I'm preaching to myself.

I'm 79 years old, and I have all these same questions. So here's the

short answer. You continue, we continue, you and I continue to trust God in the season of

aging and loss and earthly uncertainty. and yes, it is earthly uncertainty,

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