Flourishing in Old Age - HE Metropolitan Youssef

Psalm Metropolitan92

Alleluia

• King David is talking about the righteous person
• He compares him with a palm tree and the cedar (great trees that grow very high)
• "Those who are planted in the house of the Lord"
  • For a tree to bring forth fruit, it needs to be planted in good ground - and the good ground is the house of the Lord
  • Planted doesn't just mean "attends church" - but in the church life. Life of repentance, liturgical life.
• "They shall still bear fruit in old age"
  • Usually when a tree gets old, it doesn't bring forth fruit - but what King David says is that this tree will still bear fruit
  • Even if he is great in age, but his spirit is still like a youth - flourishing
• Bearing fruit in old age
  • The world sees the time of old age as a time of weakness, having given up their strength
  • But God sees it differently: "Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day." (2 Corinthians 4:16)
  • Even if my body is getting weaker, my spirit can be getting stronger
  • In youth, we plant. In old age, we harvest.

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