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Never
Too Old
Old
age is dreaded by many because it is often associated
with loneliness, physical decline, and a retreat to
inactivity.
However,
history records that many people made some of their
greatest contributions to society after the age of 65:
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The Earl of Halsburg, for example, was 90 when he began preparing a 20-volume revision of English
law.
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Goethe wrote Faust at 82.Galileo made his greatest discovery when he was
73.
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At 65, Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister for the first time and started the epic struggle against
Hitler.
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At 72, Golda Meir became Prime Minister of
Israel.
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At 80, Grandma Moses, who had started painting in her late 70s, had her first one-woman
exhibit.
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At 81, Benjamin Franklin skillfully mediated between disagreeing factions at the U.S. Constitutional
Convention.
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At 80, Winston Churchill returned to the House of Commons as a member of parliament and also exhibited 62 of his
paintings.
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At 80, Nora Cydrus became a child of God.
You
probably won’t read about Nora Cydrus in the
textbooks of history, but this week she made the
greatest decision of all history: she became a
Christian, a child of God.
Nora
has a dear friend, another octogenarian, named Thelma
Clark. Thelma
cared so much about Nora that she wanted her to know
about Jesus Christ and how one can be saved from sin
through Him (Ephesians 1:7).
So, Thelma began to study God’s Word with
Nora and began bringing her to worship and Bible
class. Then,
this past Wednesday, a Christian from the Cox
Boulevard church of Christ in Sheffield, AL, Julia Counts,
teamed up with Thelma to teach Nora about how to
respond to what Jesus had done for her (and for all of
us). They
studied about how Jesus paid the price for our sins by
dying on the cross (Romans 5:8-10).
They
read in God’s Word that in order to receive the
blessings of Jesus’ sacrificial death, we must: believe
in Him (Acts 16:30-31), turn from sin in repentance
(Acts 17:30-31), confess
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and be baptized
(immersed) in His name for the forgiveness of sins
(Acts 2:38).
Then,
Nora Cydrus confessed her faith and was baptized into
Christ (Galatians 3:26-27) to have all of her sins
washed away by the blood of Christ (Acts 22:16).
She became a Christian, praising God for her salvation!
Are
YOU a Christian?
Both Nora and the Scriptures say, YOU are never
too old and it is STILL not too late!
Won’t
YOU trust and obey Him today?
David
A. Sargent, Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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