Remedy Against Becoming an Old Fool

“Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Often one sees in aging men the desperate desire to close their days by building some sort of enduring monument to their existence, or to establish a future (though they stand at the gates of death) in what they used to be. There is in the Lord’s teaching, however, the requirement that if we live to mature years we abandon the work of our lives to his judgment, seek no legacy but what remains when it has been tested, and be content. This is not to say we must believe what we have done is nothing, that there is no hope he shall “establish the work of our hands.” But we should not fret about it, should willingly divest ourselves of what we were used to thinking of as ourselves, and enter the waters, as in our birth and our baptism, naked and ignorant, to be clothed by another Hand on the other side, and there receive our names.

I am not suggesting here that as long as we live we should ever loose an active concern for what we do, for what we do is what we are. What part of it survives the judgment of God is what shall be our substance in heaven, where we have been told to lay up treasures for ourselves. But to gain it one must first die--and there is a time to die, in which we must turn our backs on the world, leave everything, and, small and weak, be led away by the Hand we should have been learning to trust. Thus we are delivered not only to God, but from numerous follies of fond old age.

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