When you reach the age where you have more days behind you than you do before you, you can appreciate the research done by Harvard scientists. According to one report, Harvard scientists have made great headway in the search for reversing ageing.
Here is the quote from one reporter is:
“Scientists at Harvard University’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston report they were able to reverse signs of aging in mice by tweaking a gene that protects cells from the harmful, cumulative effects associated with growing old.”
Don’t get excited. No matter what any scientist does or says,
(1) We are supposed to grow old while on earth.
Genesis 3:22 says, “And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” We were not made for here. We were made to get ready for there. I am all for living a long life, but ultimately we will grow old here.
(2) Time is relentless hunter.
It eventually catches up with everyoel of us. Even if we could reverse the effects of ageing, eventually this too would pass.
- Methuselah was the oldest. He died at 969 years. (Gen 5:27)
- Jared was the second oldest. He died at 962 years. (Gen 5:19)
- Noah was third oldest. He died at 950 years. (Gen 9:29)
- Adam, the first man lived 930 years and then he died. (Gen 5:5)
Even if we live a thousand years, even that thousand years would pass.
This is not a fatalistic, pessimistic article, but is a story of good news. On Earth I will grow old and so will you, but you are not made for here. You are made for there. When you are there you will never grow old. Scientist will not figure it out. It is God’s plan.
“And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” (Revelation 21:3-4)
I think one day we may appreciate the story of the old couple who died and went to heaven. They walked around and saw the streets of gold, the heavenly mansions, and all the glory of heaven. Finally the old man said to his wife, “If you hadn’t made me eat all those health foods, we could have been here years ago.”
I am not ready to go today, but I don’t want to live here for ever.
~Lonnie Davis