It's Never Too Late

When we were younger, most of us who are Christians earnestly sought to discover God’s plan for our lives, especially in matters such as career and marriage. Are we equally diligent in seeking his plan for our old age, or are we just drifting along with no definite aim or goal?

Retirement is a phase of life when we have more time to review the past, and we recall opportunities missed, a lessening of zeal in God’s service; a mediocre prayer life; or perhaps actual sins of which we have reason to be ashamed. It is at such moments of introspection that we need to turn our eyes outward and upward to our loving and understanding Father. What a comfort a verse like Romans 5:20 can bring! “But where sin increased, grace increased all the more.”

The wonderful thing about God’s abundant grace and favour is that it is never too late to discover and follow God’s plan for the remainder of our lives, never too late to make a new start, even if we have missed his plan up till the present time.

Our timetable is not God’s timetable. This is because “With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” (2 Peter 3:8). So it’s never too late.