Seniors and the Bible: A perspective on how God’s words come to life at Tabor Village

2 Corinthians 4:16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Psalm 92:14 They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

Job 12:12 Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

Isaiah 46:4 Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

Psalm 71:18 So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

Psalm 91:16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

1 Chronicles 29:28 "a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour"

Ecclesiastes 12 New International Version (NIV) Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”— 2 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain;

3 when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim; when people rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;

Ecclesiastes 12 New International Version (NIV), cont… 4 when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades; 5 when people are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home and mourners go about the streets.

6 Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, and the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, and the wheel broken at the well, 7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12 New International Version (NIV), cont…

Joshua 14:10 "And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these 45 years... and now, lo, I am this day 85 years old. As yet I am as strong this day...as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in..."

Exodus 20:12 "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land...."

Titus 2:2, 3 "That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things."

Proverbs 20:29 "The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head."

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, because this is right. Honor your father and mother— which is the first commandment with a promise—that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land” (Ephesians 6:1).

“Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and with all propriety…” (1 Timothy 5:1-2).

“You are to rise in the presence of the elderly and honor the old … I am the Lord” (Leviticus 19:32).

“Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old” (Proverbs 23:22).

“If any believing woman has widows, she should help them, and the church should not be burdened, so that it can help those who are genuinely widows” (1 Timothy 5:16).

May the LORD bless you and guard you; May the LORD make His face shed light upon you and be gracious unto you; May the LORD lift up His face unto you and give you peace.

Christian ministry to the aged involves caring for each elderly individual as a person created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27) and as a person for whom Christ cares (Matthew 25:31-46).

Blessings To You! Dan Levitt, MSc., CHE