10.21- You are never too old to be useful or too young.

 10.21-

You are never too old to be useful or too young.

This week I heard of an older couple who had great health problems. Their home was at one time new and the landscaping was perfect. This couple could sit on their back porch admire their new back fence and their perfect lawn.

Now, 40 years later, they are elderly and the couple has had serious cancer surgery. The fence is old and broken down. The place not set up to sit and rejoice in the blessings of life. Overgrown. To fix it maybe $8,000 to $10,000.

Old and young are sometimes sitting around criticizing each other. A man suggested we pray and organize young and old make themselves useful together. Good planning. Hard work. A lot of hard work. Materials about $2,000.

The before and after pictures are dramatically different. Good things and beautiful things can be done. The older couple can sit on their porch and admire, prayer, organization and hard work and young and old because both are useful.

Acts 9

32 Now as Peter was traveling through all those regions, he also came down to the [q]saints who lived at [r]Lydda. 33 There he found a man named Aeneas who had been bedridden for eight years, [s]because he was paralyzed. 34 Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; get up and make your own bed.” Immediately he got up. 35 And all who lived at [t]Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

36 Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which when translated means [u]Dorcas); this woman was [v]excelling in acts of kindness and charity which she did habitually. 37 But it happened [w]at that time that she became sick and died; and when they had washed her body, they laid it in an upstairs room. 38 Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, having heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, “Do not delay in coming to us.” 39 So Peter got ready and went with them. When he arrived, they brought him into the room upstairs; and all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing all the [x]tunics and garments that Dorcas used to make while she was with them. 40 But Peter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed, and turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up. 41 And he gave her his hand and raised her up; and calling the [y]saints and widows, he presented her alive. 42 It became known all over Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. 43 And Peter stayed in Joppa many days with a tanner named Simon.

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