Length: 5 minutes

Most people, including believers, believe that advancing in years means corruption for their bodies, but this isn’t true at all. Your years are not the problem in the slightest. God doesn’t want to make you younger in years. Think about how many years God has been around, and I’m pretty sure He’s doing wonderfully well. 

Trust me, years are not the problem (Job 36:26). Advancing in years is great! God has done quite a lot of that. He is older than anyone… from everlasting. Time is not the enemy here, although most assume so. The problem is the corruption in this world. Therefore, people don’t need fewer years. People need God’s everlasting power, which endures for all time.

We associate corruption and changing, with time or advancing in years, but corruption doesn’t come from time. Corruption comes from Adam’s sin. If Adam had never sinned (or if, perhaps, there were a Savior to cleanse us from sin… *wink wink*), then corruption wouldn’t be a problem at all. Adam’s sin causes corruption, not years. And if you’re cleansed from sin, then you’ve escaped the corruption that’s in this world because of it (2 Peter 1:4).

Don’t desire to be younger in years. Where would that get you? Even someone who is young in years, apart from Jesus, is still subject to corruption and hurt that’s in this world. Without Jesus, a young person is still mortal, with only temporal strength. Do not envy that…

Isaiah 40:30 (NKJV) Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall…

God does not want to make you younger in years. He just wants to make your body everlasting. The problem is not that you need a time machine to go back to your “younger days.” Why would you want to do that? No matter how old someone is in years, without Jesus, they are still corruptible in their sins. 

You don’t want to be young in years. What people need is what God has — an everlasting strength that remains the same, no matter how many years have passed. God still looks good, feels good, and is as strong as ever. He has been around for more years than one can count. That’s exactly the kind of everlasting power that we have through Jesus! And that’s the kind of power that God will manifest in us as well. 

Isaiah 40:28-31 (NKJV) The everlasting God, the LORD… Neither faints nor is weary… He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength… They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

Many people read these verses and think God is being metaphorical. They think that, us never growing weary or faint is somehow some “spiritual analogy” for emotional endurance. They don’t think it’s literally saying that we are able to continue without ever growing tired or weak. Well, let me ask you this: When it says that God is everlasting and does not grow weary or faint, is that literal or figurative? Was that just some “spiritual analogy” for His emotional endurance, or is it really saying that God doesn’t grow weary or faint? Of course, He is being literal. God literally never grows tired or faint or weak. And so, when He says that He will increase that same power to you, so that you do not have to grow weary, faint, or weak, that is also literal. He is not being figurative here. 

Why do Christians quote this as being literal for God, but suddenly make it figurative when it refers to that same power working in us? Because most people, even Christians, can’t fit it in their mind that they’ve been given the same everlasting power that the Father has. But that’s exactly what this passage is saying.

Everlasting power, to never grow faint and never grow weary is not something that even the youth of this world have, but it’s something that we have with the Father, through Jesus. Our everlasting God does not grow faint or weary, despite the vast number of years that He’s been around. And God will continue to advance in years and continue to enjoy the same power He’s always had. 

He will never change and never grow faint. And because we’ve been made righteous through Jesus, this is the exact same kind of life and power that we have as well!  God increases this to our bodies, by His Spirit, as we acknowledge all of these good things inside of us (1 John 3:15 and Romans 8:11). 

So bring on the years, and the Spirit will keep bringing on that sweet, everlasting strength. 

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