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sermon. God bless. Let me pray once more Lord.
Thank you again for this passage. Thank you for
the Psalms these This great hymn book this this
book that gives voice to all of the great emotions
of this life God this invitation That you give
to us to bring all of our self to you all our
raw self all of our real self all of our All
the different dynamics of life that we go through
to you. God, I pray that wherever we are right
now, that you meet us through these words. Meet
us in the different stages of our life. Meet
us in the trials of our life. Meet us in the
joy of our life. Be with us present in this,
your word. Now we pray. Amen. All right. This
past fall, I was with a friend from Richmond
where we had lived before we moved here 10 years
ago. This friend is one of those friends who's
particularly good at asking questions that invite
more questions or that invite a deeper conversation,
which I will say is a skill that we should all
be seeking to develop. It's a great gift when
you're with somebody like that who really asks
questions that make you think and can be fun,
but also invite something deeper. And so this
friend who I've now known for 15 years asked
me, Peter, what signs have you seen in your body
that you're getting older? And so I remember
really clearly when I turned 28, actually I remember
this because a couple of years before this, a
friend of mine said, man, when I turned 28, my
metabolism changed and I used to be able to eat
everything. And this was me, right? from basically
the time I was 14 till the time I was 28 I weighed
145 pounds wet and 130 pounds sick, you know,
and I could eat anything I could eat all day
long and I turned 28 and I just was like I can't
do that anymore. What what happened to my body?
I just can't eat whatever I want Some of you
have experienced this others if you you will
hopefully if you make it there anyway that was
not what came to my mind i was looking at my
hands and my friend asked me this and i and i
don't know if i had i think i had noticed them
before but this was what i was doing and i saw
this spot right there and this spot right there
and right there and right here and right there
uh some of you know those are called aging spots
It's the clumping together of the melanin that
gives color to your skin. It often is aggravated
by being in the sun a lot, but it pretty much
only happens when you put on a few years. Some
of you have heard me talk about this one. So
I was watching this fall in November I was watching
this video of this physical therapist who counsels
people who does sports and he what he does is
he does he does these exams first of sort of
range of motion things, you know, like these
kinds of things and You know like muscle movements
and what not and he gives people these exercises
So they are their range can improve and their
muscles with certain activities can improve and
I'm watching this and I hear him say That He
starts to see injury and significant decline
in people when they turn 43. And so I'm bowling
on January 4th this year with my family and with
a few folk. And all we're doing is bowling. I
mean, Mary was on a bowling league for like 50
years, right? Or longer than that, a while. And
we get done, and my knee has this sharp, acute
pain. And my hip is just, I'm doing this kind
of like, you know, leaving Trindle Bull. And
here's the thing, I went to bed and it was still
there in the morning. What is up with that? You
know? Like, why? And then you know what? Actually,
my hip, it pretty much hurt for about two months.
My knee just got better like two months ago,
five months after this happened. I don't remember
falling over, nothing. I was doing this bowling.
And I know, by the way, that was my 43rd birthday.
And I know I'm not that old. I have been called
names from the likes of Dottie Roden and Diane
Koning and other of our senior saints. Names
like Spring Chicken. and youngster. And I understand.
That's fine. I don't take offense to any of that.
I understand what the love from which it's offered.
This song that we have before us this morning,
it is definitely written in the waning years
of David's life. He says there in verse nine,
do not cast me off in the time of old age. forsake
me not when my strength is spent." But I don't
think he's, in saying that, I'll show you this.
I don't think what he's doing is saying that
the pains that we have in other stages of life,
the different trials that we go through, the
troubles that we go through physically, emotionally,
mentally, socially are diminished. In fact, what
he's doing is he's looking at his old life and
he's saying, don't forsake me in my old age.
And you know what? You haven't done it at these
other times either. And so verse seven tells
us things like this, that he's been a portent
to many. It's been a sign of the hard things
that are to come in the various seasons of life
to many throughout his life. And yet God has
been with him and he's been present with him
through these challenges. So he can look back,
verses five and six, tell us this, for you, O
Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my
youth. He's kind of, and then he goes back farther.
Upon you have I leaned from before my birth.
So David begins this Psalm primarily in these
first few verses by asking God to not, you know,
that he would not be put to shame. He asks that
he would be saved. He asks God to be his rock,
his refuge. He asked that a couple of times in
this Psalm. He says also a rock and a fortress,
something to defend, not just to protect, but
also to defend against the onslaught of others.
He asks for God's rescue from the hand of the
wicked. And it says, and from a cruel man. Just
people that are just cruel, mean, ornery. And
what I want us to do a little bit today is to
think together because I think this is actually
what David is doing. He's coming to the near
the end of his life and he is experiencing one
of the hardships that age presents. But he's
also giving, he's kind of thinking back on his
life. about how he's been a portent to many,
the sign of the difficult things of life, but
also how God's been faithful in those things.
He's thinking back through the challenges of
aging. And I do want us to think a bit about
the hardship of getting older, but also how just
simply getting older from one stage to the next
presents different challenges. He mentions here
shame and a need for refuge and wickedness and
cruelty. And one of the things I would suggest
to you is that those dynamics are present pretty
much in every stage of life. A degree of shame
and a degree of cruelty, a need to take refuge
in God. Getting older is not just something for
the elderly. Getting older happens to each one
of us in each stage. David, interestingly, goes
back to birth. And did you notice he actually
goes back before that? Verse six, upon you have
I leaned from before my birth. You are he who
took me from my mother's womb. He's looking at
birth, but he's also actually going. back before.
And I want us to think about this a little bit.
There are challenges that face us even in the
womb. You might not be terribly cognizant of
those. Most of us have very few memories before
the age of three or so. I was speaking though
with a local psychologist who's become a friend
about my own life, my own family upbringing.
And you start to ask questions like, why am I
like this and this and all these kinds of things.
And we're talking about how we're so multifaceted.
Us becoming us is such a strange and interesting
subject. If you look actually at one of the meditation
quotes, Dan Allender there at the bottom in his
book, The Wounded Heart says, every person enjoys
dignity and suffers depravity. The structures
of personality is a result of the interaction
of these two dynamics. And that can be said also
actually in utero. How you were cared for the
joy that parents might have embraced with you
even when they just first learned of pregnancy
That can have an effect on you even in the womb
there. There's certain difficulties and challenges
that take place I mean, of course, it's not hard
for us to think of things like fetal alcohol
syndrome, which certainly affects many but this
wasn't the focus of my conversation with my friend.
We were just talking about how everything that
we're experiencing, even within the womb outside,
how parents talk to each other, how they love
each other, how they think of you with joy and
gladness or the inverse of that affects us. Of
course, any birth is a miracle, right? I mean,
the weaving together of a child within a mother
and the ways that children are cared for and
fed. And it's an astounding miracle of miracles
kind of thing. Wonder of wonders. How we are
made such wonderfully and cared for in our wombs
from our inception. But we also know how common
it is to not make it out of the womb. I read
that 15 % that's sort of a low number of pregnancies
end in miscarriage. It's actually likely a lot
higher than that because most of those happen
in the first trimester. So many of them are not
reported or unknown. And so many of us have experienced
the pain and loss of a child in that way, which
is to say to lean upon the Lord even in the womb
is a necessary dynamic. To bear a child can be
full of joy and also full of unbelievable hardship,
overwhelming sadness. Sometimes a child is planned
for, Often a child is the joy of their parents
having waited a long time for that child. And
yet often that's also not the case. Sometimes
childbirth is met with the unrelenting scorn
of others. How could you bear a child? How could
you be a mother? And it's also actually in our
own minds. How can I, what am I doing? You know,
you leave. the hospital with that child and they
just let you leave with it. What are they doing?
I remember being astounded the first time that
happened. It eased the second and third times.
But sometimes children are born in the middle
of a separation or a divorce. There are certain
trials and troubles that are born even in infancy,
even when just coming from your mother's womb.
Leaning on the Lord is for the old and for the
very, very young. And it goes on, of course,
think with me, right, of the challenges and the
joys of being a young child. You're full of interest.
full of energy, sometimes to your own parents
chagrin. You're learning to move, but also you
have to learn to not stick your finger in the
socket or not touch the oven when it's on. When
I was in, I think it was third or fourth grade,
I think I was nine or 10, around that. I was
at a neighbor's house and we were playing and
somehow we ended up upon a wasps nest. Yeah,
you can imagine how that went. I remember more
or less just being like covered in, you know,
baking, the baking soda, baking soda afterwards.
That's, this was stung me and it hurt like crazy,
but actually what sort of hurt even more was
that the very next day was my pictures for my
baseball team. And I'm telling you, it looked
like, you know, sometimes baseball players have
a wad of chew in their mouth. I had the whole
baseball like on my, in my cheek and it was just
kinda like. I'm like, that's not what you want.
That's a degree of shame for a kid who loves
sports and you're 10 years old. We learn the
scorn of others even at a young age and we learn
to lean on the Lord in the unique ways that that
age invites and the difficulties of those different
stages. And of course, parenting those stages
has its challenges. It's amazing how quickly
parents, and I am speaking of myself in this
regard, okay, but no doubt probably a lot of
you will resonate. You go from having opinions
about like parenting on everything when you have
one child to then like having your second or
your third and you're like, I actually don't
know if I have an opinion about anything because
I'm pretty sure I've failed at all of it right
now. Which is to say we have learned how little
we actually know, right? Because parenting can
be actually a very humiliating thing. because
it's such a deep trial. It's so much deeper than
just a loss of sleep. Think with me a little
bit about the puberty years. Those can be actually
pretty exciting years. Your body's growing. There's
a sense in which you're coming of age, growing
into womanhood or manhood. And you're becoming,
as Jess pointed out to us this week, I thought
this was lovely, like a part of the great sisterhood.
Part of the great brotherhood. There's something
exciting about that You're getting stronger I
remember looking in the mirror in the upstairs
bathroom and flexing and thinking this is cool
And yet our bodies don't feel like our own and
we don't feel really comfortable in them We wonder
to what people group, what friend group we belong
to. Who are we? How do I exist outside of mom
and dad and my siblings as myself? Because I
know more and more that I'm a unique person and
I don't know how that functions. So of course
those years can be really socially deeply trying
and really difficult friends can scorn you you
can be made fun of You know for a little peach
fuzz that starts to grow or if you just never
end up having decent facial hair as some of us
do Often in the teenage years you're introduced
to things that can really harm you externally
and internally sometimes you grab on to those
because you know, they made you in in the social
setting that you were in and And again, in those
kinds of seasons, you learn to lean on the Lord
through the troubles and the challenges. Of course,
the end of the high school years, young adulthood
has its huge challenges. What are you studying
becomes a question that I used to lead college
ministry. And I remember talking to people and
they said, after the first week of being on campus,
I just wanted to write out a card. that had like
the four main questions. Where are you from?
What are you studying? You know, what's your
major? What are you going to do with it? Because
it just gets so incessant that you just want
to go, can you read this? Because you're not
going to ask me anything else and I don't really
want to talk to you. And they can be such fear
inducing questions because so often you don't
really know. I've heard it said that the years
from 18 to 25 can be some of the most difficult
years you experience. And I don't know that there
are years that are not difficult to be frank.
I think that's part of what David is even saying.
But those years can be very trying. You're still,
you're wondering, what do I do? Do I go to the
trade school? Do I go work this job that's been
offered to me? Do I go to this school? If I go
to the school, what does this mean? Here, here,
here. They're certainly very difficult. Where
do you belong? Dating can be unbelievably hard.
and unbelievably sorrowful. We learn again to
lean on the Lord. We learn to lean on the Lord
in our singleness. We learn to lean on the Lord
in our dating or not, because some of us are
not called to that kind of life. We learn to
lean on the Lord in our sexual pain and our sexual
sin and our sexual history. We learn to lean
on the Lord in our new jobs or our lost jobs
or our searching for jobs. or our heart emptying
jobs, which many of us have at least from time
to time. We learned to lean on the Lord with
our roommates that won't do the dishes or that
don't pay rent. Or as one of the roommates that
I had once just ghosted us. And all of a sudden
all of our rent went up because he just decided
he didn't want to live with us anymore. And that
was it. It was actually a pastor's kid in my
own presbytery at the time. What's going on?
We learned to lean on the Lord when we venture
out from our mom and dad's house for the first
time, or for the second time, or for the third
time. We just moved down to the basement. We
learned to lean on the Lord in our young marriages
where we have no idea how our spouse ever made
it out of the third grade, or how we thought
that we were mature enough to say yes. We learn
to lean on the Lord through divorces and through
infidelity, through angry words thrown at you
late at night, sometimes punches through doors,
sometimes through forgiveness and healing. We
learn to lean on the Lord when we are sitting
with our children crying with them because they
didn't make the basketball team because their
friend Just said one of the meanest and cruelest
things We learn to lean on the Lord when we're
sitting with our teenager because We just said
one of the meanest and cruelest things We learn
to lean on the Lord when they move out when they
head off to college or decide to take a job or
to move states We learn to lean on the Lord when
we outlive our children because of that car accident,
because of that overdose. We learn to lean on
the Lord when our parents start to show the signs
of aging and not just skin spots. We learn to
lean on the Lord when the diagnosis comes back
and the cancer comes and the stroke happens,
when the degenerative disease persists as they
do. I'm heading back to Washington in two weeks.
And I'm going to a friend's wedding. And you
all heard me say this a few years ago. One of
my mom's best friend, she died a few years ago
and she had Alzheimer's for the last 12 years
of her life. And her husband's one of my dad's
best friends and he's getting remarried. And
I mean, you wouldn't believe the hair loss at
his wife's funeral. kind of like mangy hair loss
and how skinny he was and how much he had loved
his wife and cared for her through unbelievably
difficult years. And when his youngest daughter
was little, she's one of my younger, my youngest
sister's best friend, they were over at our house
and they riding bikes. They rode to the end of
our gravel road. Because there's like a few houses
that are on this gravel driveway and there's
this little hill that goes down and little Chelsea
Rode her bike down that hill and got hit with
a car And it ran over her and she spent the next
four months in the intensive care unit at Harborview
in Seattle She's actually doing them remarkably.
Well, but we know none of us knew if she's gonna
live You learn to lean on the Lord in that Praise
the Lord. She's doing well now. She's gonna walk
her dad down the aisle Some of you have sold
houses and they were the ones you raised your
kids in. And the ones you hoped you would die
in. And the ones you hoped your kids would buy
the house next door to, right? Maybe it was also
the house though that your husband got so angry
in. Maybe it was the house that you dreamed of.
Maybe it was the house that you came to fear.
You've learned to lean on the Lord in the nursing
home and the assisted living facility. Maybe
you learned to lean on the Lord when your husband
or your wife learned to change you and your diapers,
help you go to the bathroom. We learn to lean
on the Lord, what I'm saying, through every stage
of life, because every stage of life has its
unbelievable burdens and trials and hardships.
And there is no stage that is exempt from this.
I mean, this Psalm speaks of enemies multiple
times, but think of verse 10, speaks of cruel
man. All right, verse four, speaks of shame in
verse one, speaks of accusers in verse 13, speaks
of the wicked in verse four. And of course the
list goes on, because that is this life. Verse
10 and 11. For my enemies speak concerning me
those who watch for my life consult together
and say What actually maybe people say have said
about you right like God's forsaken him that's
forsaken her Pursue and seize him pursue and
seize her There's none. There's none to deliver
him hurt. There's nobody that really cares about
you It seems as if at each stage of life, there
are reasons that we can say that we have enemies
and there are reasons why we hear these words,
God's forsaken them. And sometimes actually,
I would say often, it's actually our own selves,
right? We're the accusers, we're the cruel men,
cruel women. We are the ones who are saying these
kinds of things to ourselves. Think about this
Paul writing in Romans 7. He says this, so I
find it to be a law that when I want to do right,
evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the
law of God in my inner being, but I see in my
members another law waging war against the law
in my mind and making me captive to the law of
sin that dwells in my members, wretched man that
I am. who will deliver me from this body of death."
He says, I'm part of the very problem. And I
bet you know that experience, because we can
say that at just about every stage of our lives
too. And yet, and this is the truth, okay, this
is one of the great things that I think commends
the scriptures to you. If you're not a Christian,
if you're kind of exploring, or let me say this,
if you are a Christian, I think one of the things
that commends the Bible to us the most is how
honest it is. David's never like, ah, things
are just peachy keen all the time. Put on your
rose -colored glasses. No, but for as much as
he's willing to be always honest about the challenges
of life, he also says, I have learned the faithfulness
of God. He's learned the faithfulness of the
Lord. Turn with me again to the inside cover
of your bulletin. Michael Gorman in a phenomenal
book called cruciformity says the sufferings
of Paul are not interruptions to his mission,
but are intrinsic to it Through them the message
of Christ crucified is embodied David does not
shirk away from it, but he says that through
these trials. He's learned the faithfulness of
God. He's learned to lean on the Lord So Paul
after those words that I just read in Romans
7 he says this Thanks be to God through Jesus
Christ our Lord Not shrugging off the enemies
and the accusers which are often ourselves Naming
those but naming the faithfulness of God for
us in Christ And so David says a little bit like
this if you look down at verse 17, he says this
read that whole section. Oh God, from my youth
you've taught me and I still proclaim your wondrous
deeds. So even in old age and gray hairs, oh
God, do not forsake me until I proclaim your
might to another generation, your power to all
those to come. Your righteousness, oh God, reaches
to the high heavens. You who have done great
things with God, who's like you? You who have
made me see many troubles and calamities will
revive me again from the depths of the earth.
You will bring me up again. You will increase
my greatness and comfort me again. See, I've
learned to lean on the Lord and He has not failed
me. The trials and the troubles of David's life,
they shape the context of his fidelity to God,
but more than anything they show him God's fidelity,
God's faithfulness to Him. And the same thing
is true for you and for me. Various trials and
the troubles that we go through in the various
seasons of our life. All right, I wanna wrap
this up, but I wanna encourage you with a few
things first, okay? And then I'm gonna give a
little historical ending, okay? I wanna encourage
you with a few things. One, I wanna encourage
you to embrace each season of life, okay? There
are seasons that we go through where it is very
easy to live into nostalgia. Ah, the glory days
of being a dink, double income, no kids, or whatever.
Oh man, I was the star football player. We've
all heard about that guy. There are seasons of
our life where it's so easy to say, back then,
if only I was living then. There are also seasons
of our life where all we want to do is look ahead,
look to the next thing. How much of life seems
to be lived towards retirement or something.
I want to encourage you to embrace the season
in which God has you. as much as you are able,
embrace where God has you now. With its trials
and tribulations, its troubles, the Lord is with
you and He's teaching you something unique. He's
giving you certain joys and certain difficulties.
They are always there with you. And yet embrace
where He has you now. Okay, that's one thing.
I wanna encourage you in another way. And that
is actually, in some ways I want you to look
around. Like really literally, look around right
now. Very few heads are turning, so I'm just
gonna wait. Okay, just looking around a little
bit. I want you to embrace, I want to encourage
you to embrace the beauty of a multi -generational
church. Sadly, it is true that many, many churches
are divided up in all kinds of ways. Churches
loved, we are the church that does rock and roll,
we use the organ or whatever it is. We divide
over all kinds of things. It's still the case
that Sunday, morning is the most racially divided
hours. Absolutely true. One of the great ways
that we divide is over age. You know, we're the
young church. Look at all the programs we have
for kids or, you know, we're older church, whatever.
But we need one another and we need one another
in each stage of our lives. I think there's a
unique need in a way to see the next stage beyond
you following Jesus. So, you know, people that
may be my age, we need to see couples who have
fought for their marriages, like put in work
and done something, made something beautiful
because it is unbelievably difficult at times.
And you're holding onto Jesus through the challenges
that your marriage presents to itself. Teenagers,
need to see young adults who have said, you know
what? I know the challenges of that stage and
you can follow Jesus after it and you can do
it with joy. I need to see the faithfulness of
you empty nesters. I already, I feel like I'm
going to cry. I dread when my kids are going
to leave my house. I can't believe I'm talking
about that right now. We need you, right? We
need people that have gone through that stage
and are holding fast to Jesus and Jesus has been
faithful to them. Our retirees need to see our
elderly folk who are holding fast to Jesus in
their older age, okay? Each one of us gives a
gift to the other and we need one another. We
need to embrace the beauty of this kind of life
together. Okay. Sorry. I did not think I would
stir up like that a little bit. Sorry. I'm going
to go three, okay? I want to encourage you to
learn to speak of and praise the Lord in the
stage He's put you in, okay? I know this is kind
of like the first one, like embrace where you
are. But here's what, here, I want to, this is
a little bit different because you senior saints,
you who have been following Jesus a long time,
I think you should be seeking to articulate the
faith in a deeper and richer way, as David's
able to do, than younger folk. Children, I want
you to be thinking about this. And sometimes
I get to see this because we do interviews for
community and stuff, but... I want you to learn,
what does it mean for me to profess and speak
about Jesus and praise Jesus as a nine -year
-old or as an eight -year -old or as a 13 -year
-old? You know what I mean? What does it mean
for me? I'm 43 and how do I speak about the Christian
faith and how do I sink deep down more my feet
and become more rooted in what God has taught
me through the years? I want each of us to say,
how can I embrace this reality of God with me
now and how can I learn to articulate it to others?
All right, let me end. In February, in the year
155, there was an 86 year old man who was taken,
actually he had supposedly spent, he knew people
were coming for him and he had spent this time
in prayer. And he'd been praying for all these
churches and these people that he knew and old
and young alike, it said actually. But he was
taken and he was marched. through his town and
to the stadium there. And he was actually put
to death by fire and by the sword. This man's
name is Polycarp. Some of you know his name.
He was arrested because he wouldn't burn incense
to Caesar. Caesar was like a god. He could do
whatever he wanted. And the Christians, they
were called atheists because they only believed
in one true God and they denied all the pantheon
of gods. And so Christians were said, they had
to come and they had to declare Caesar's Lord.
Caesar's Lord. But he would not do this. He had
learned over the years to lean on the Lord and
he was going to do so until the end. And so he
was arrested. He was brought to that stadium.
And as he entered the stadium, the account of
his martyrdom says that a voice from heaven came
down. At least people looked around. They had
no idea where this voice came from. He said,
be strong, Polycarp. Be the man. And then it
goes on, and I want to read to you a little bit.
When he was finally brought forward, there was
a huge uproar when they heard that Polycarp had
been arrested. After he was brought forward,
the procounsel asked whether he was Polycarp.
When he confessed that he was, the procounsel
tried to persuade him to recant saying, have
respect for your age. Come on, you don't need
to be a martyr at your old age. And all the other
things they usually say, swear by the genius
of Caesar, turn away, say away with the atheists,
meaning the Christians. Polycarp looked solemnly
at the whole crowd of lawless heathen who were
in the stadium, motioned toward them with his
hand, then groaned as he looked toward heaven
and said, away with the atheists. But the procounsel
was insistent and said, swear the oath and I
will let you go. Revile Christ. Polycarp replied,
86 years I've served him. From his womb, from
his birth. 86 years I have served him and he
has never wronged me. How can I have blasphemed
my King who saved me? It's not that Polycarp
had an easy life. We actually know he was born
into slavery. He was adopted as a young child
by a single woman who taught him the Scriptures.
We also learned that he learned from the Apostle
John himself about the great love of God and
Christ. And that upbringing, that tutoring, that
mentoring from an older, wiser person changed
his life. What I'm saying is, may we, may all
of us fight the good fight, finish the race,
keep the faith. And when we are old and all of
our hairs are gray, when our body is failing,
would we also proclaim, He's never wronged me.
Great is the faithfulness of the Lord. Let me
pray. Lord, so grateful for polycarp and for
John. God, I'm thankful for Mary and Ross coming
to Sunday school this morning. Four generations
in a room, opening up the Bible. God, I'm thankful
for Linda, loving people that come for English
classes, little children. Got them thankful for
Peter who plays with Will and August and all
the others. Got them thankful for the names.
that surround us in this space. People who have
given time and money to build this sanctuary,
to love us. Generations later who they didn't
know. God, most of all we're thankful for your
love for us in Christ. The great love of God
for us. coming among us as one of us, dying,
rising, giving new life, giving us the sure promise
that the trials and tribulations of this life
are not the end of the story. But you will be
faithful and bring us through the resurrection,
new heavens, new earth, no more crying or tears
or pain, no more cruel men, no more accusers,
no more shame. They will be the old things that
have passed away and you will make all things
new. We love you, Lord. We thank you for your
great faithfulness in Jesus. In whose name we
pray. Amen. Thank you for listening to Second
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