Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, nearing her 60th birthday.

The best preparation for getting older is to trust him and lean on him when you're younger.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of A Place of Quiet Rest for Thursday, August 30th.

I have a friend who's going through some excruciatingly painful circumstances.

She's not an older woman, but she's dealing with years of childhood trauma and sexual

abuse as an adult. And she knew that I was preparing to teach on Psalm 71. She sent me a text a couple of

days ago and she said, I don't remember what Psalm 71 is, but you should make it to be about how

we just need Jesus to come

rescue us fast. Well, actually, she couldn't have come up with a better description of this

Psalm. It is about how we just need Jesus to come rescue us fast. And in this Psalm, as we saw

yesterday, the psalmist is getting older, and he's facing

weakness, adversity, and opposition. And so he turns the challenges into prayer. The whole Psalm

is a prayer. And so I want to read this Psalm. I've been meditating on this as I get ready to turn

60 next week, and I'm not feeling depressed

or despondent or discouraged. Well, some days I do, truth be told. But that doesn't have as much

to do with aging as just the fact that some days are harder and some days is more tempting to give

into discouragement. But I am wanting to be intentional about

growing older, to be intentional about a grace-filled, Christ-dependent life as I get older.

And I figure there's no time like a 60th birthday to be thinking about that. So let me read the psalm.

And it's a little lengthy, but I want to just wash you with his word,

no matter how young or old you may be, whatever birthday you may be facing, because this Psalm has

beautiful, rich insight for us at every season of life. And then we'll talk a little bit about it

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