Even to your old age I am He

“Even to your old age I am He.” He is always the same in Himself, and always the same to His people. If you are indeed a believer in the Lord, and resting in Christ Jesus, He says to you at this time with regard to all the future unknown, and, perhaps greatly dreaded, “Be not afraid, for I am the Lord your God; even to your old age I am He.”

Dear friends, we rightly expect trials between here and heaven, and the ordinary wear and tear of life, even if life should not be clouded by an extreme trial, will gradually wear us out. We shall come, by and by, if life is spared, to that bottom of the hill where the eye grows dim, and the ear is heavy, and the arms are trembling, and the strong men bow themselves. Well, what then? What says our God concerning the days of decline and decay? He says to us, “I AM HE.” He will not grow weak. His eye will not be dim. His ear will not be heavy. His arm will not be shortened that He cannot help us, or His hand palsied that He cannot deliver us. Change is written across the countenance of every mortal, but there are no furrows on the brow of the Eternal.

If life should flow never so smoothly, yet there are the rapids of old age, and the broken waters of infirmity, and the waterfall of disease, and these we are apt to dread; but why? Is not the Lord our trust? Is it not sure that the Lord changes not? Make this your strong confidence. As for you, you youths, you are strong, but boast not of your strength; the Lord Jehovah is our strength and our song. As for you, in the midst of life—tremble not because of your difficulties, “is anything too hard for the Lord?” As for you that are sinking into the decline of life, and know that very soon your tabernacle will be taken down, be not afraid, for the Lord has not altered. Has he not said, “I am the Lord, I change not”? Let this be your delight.

In the course of years, not only do we change, but our circumstances change. Many look forward to trying circumstances in the declining days of life. “When I cannot earn my livelihood; when I cannot go out to the farm, or stand at the counter, or work on the bench, what will become of me then?” Hearken, my brother, if you are where you ought to be, your confidence is in God now, and you will have the same God then, and He will still be your guardian and provider. He will be under no decay from age, nor decline from weakness. His bank will not break, or his treasury fail. His granary will not be exhausted, and His bounty will not be worn out. Trust in Him for that which is written between the folded leaves of destiny, as well as for the page which lies open before you. If the infirmities of the body scare you, trust Him, and if the changing circumstances of your life alarm you, trust Him, for He must be the same though heaven and earth should be dissolved. He says, “Even to your old age I am He.”

Idols Found Wanting But Jehovah Found Faithful, Sermon 2056 - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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