Me:  What happened to your friend?

Prodigal:  She’s like a bicycle with no handlebars.

Me:  Well maybe she will find her way someday.

 

This is from the book Living on the Ragged Edge by Charles Swindoll

 

The late Canon C.H. Nash, who founded the Melbourne Bible Institute and trained a thousand young men and women for Christian service, retired from his principalship at the age of seventy.  At eighty, he received assurance from the Lord that a further fruitful ministry of ten years lay ahead of him.  This assurance was abundantly fulfilled During those years he was uniquely blessed in a ministry of Bible teaching to key groups of clergy and laymen–probably the most fruitful years of his life.  When he was nearly ninety, the author found him completing the reading of volume six of Toynbee’s monumental history as a mental exercise.

Mr. Benjamin Ririe retired as a missionary of the China Inland Mission when he reached the age of seventy.  When he was eighty he decided to learn New Testament Greek.  He became proficient in reading the Greek New Testament in his eighties.  At ninety, he attended a refresher course in New Testament Greek in a seminary.  When he was a hundred years old, he was present at a meeting at which the author was speaking.  In his pocket was a small well-worn Greek lexicon which he used to brush up on his Greek while traveling by public transport!

 

God has a life that is full of possibilities, so don’t think that this is the end.  Just because you are having a slow week.

 

Colossians 3:15

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body.  And be thankful.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org