As people age, they are reminded that their later years can be a time of wisdom, honor, and continued service to God. According to Proverbs, a long life is a crown of glory, and in Isaiah, God promises to sustain and carry His people even in their old age. The book of Job notes that wisdom and understanding come with age, while Psalms celebrates the vitality and fruitfulness that can characterize older believers, with Psalms 92 saying they will still yield fruit in old age and Psalms 71 expressing a desire to declare God's power to the next generation.
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Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.
Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.
You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.