“Remember Now”

“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.” Let God direct you, let Him protect you from all those things that you will fall into when you get out there in the world. Let Him guide your life, pilot your course, guide you right through the turbulent unsettled period of your life, and live right on in service to Him. Then when you get old you can just ripen for heaven like these old sisters I spoke of.

My first wife’s mother lived to be about ninety-three, close to it, and during the last four years or so she was a bed invalid. She was in our home all the time, just as sweet an old lady as you would ever see. Everything was all right, no complaints, no murmuring. When one would do anything for her, in her quaint little way she would always say, “Thank you.” But she had lived for God many years from the time of her youth, and just ripened up for heaven. We can get old like that, too.

One of the saints referred to some of the elderly sisters in our Senior Citizens Home in California. She said, “When I get old I want to be just like Sister —— and Sister ——.” They were very sweet old ladies. I said, “If you want to be like they are when you are old, you will have to be like them now.”

“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth”—that is my little message to you this morning. In Jesus’ name. Amen.