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Don't get sick when you get old

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God's desire that you be in health (3 John 2) has no age limit. As long as you are on this earth, God wants you well. "By whose stripes you were healed" applies in old age, too! Therefore, you do not have to be afflicted with the diseases that often come on older people. You are still redeemed from every sickness, and you can still flourish.


Psalm 92:13-14:

Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing.

It is the devil's lie that you have to become senile and decrepit when you get old. God says that you can flourish in old age. Look at Moses, who lived to be 120, yet "his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated" (Deut 34:7), or Caleb, who was still slaying giants in his eighties.

You do not have to get sick to die. You can choose to go home to be with the Lord when you are satisfied. Paul said that he had a choice to depart and be with Christ or to stay on the earth, which was more needful for the people. It was Paul's choice, not the devil's choice through sickness.


God concludes Psalm 91 by saying that he will satisfy you with long life, and show you his salvation. Long life is not satisfying if it is spent wasting away in pain or debility in a nursing home (or assisted living center, or whatever term is currently in vogue for a place that cares for those who can't care for themselves). God isn't going to torture you with long life. He doesn't want you to spend your later years wishing you would die. He wants your long life to be satisfying, and he wants to show you his salvation, including healing, throughout your long, satisfying life!

Until you're ready to go home to your eternal reward, healing belongs to you, so believe God and stay healthy!

For more on this topic, see the answer to the Objection: If you could always get healed, you would live forever, and God says you won't.

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