If we look for the purpose of life in ourselves, we will only find emptiness. Only in faithfulness and obedience to Christ can we find fulfillment. The Bible gives us the all that we need to know to find joy, peace and purpose.
In Titus, the Bible gives clear instruction for older adults:
Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
Titus 2:2-5 NIV
March 2, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Well that is a novel idea in our culture of self-indulgence, isn’t it? I mean, what should I be putting all our hard-earned money away for, if not to use it in our old age for travel and fun? Could it be so that I should continue to invest in the younger generation? Shouldn’t I be done with the younger generation when my youngest reaches 18? Shouldn’t the government tell us when we are to stop being parents? Helping and teaching the younger generation of other people’s children? That just sounds too much like work, doesn’t it? Isn’t retirement supposed to mean – to rest and enjoy the last years of YOUR life? What about those women who are subject to their husbands? What if they didn’t “work”?…