A Prayer about Flourishing in Old Age

They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green….Psalm 92:14

Everlasting God,

We live in a world that urges us to fight aging, 

We live in a world that promises us eternal youth, 

if we will only apply this wrinkle cream, 

walk 10,000 steps a day, 

and eat kale salad for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 

While there’s nothing wrong 

with resisting some of the harsher effects of aging 

by exercising regularly and eating healthily, 

you have promised us something far better. 

Turn our hearts away from a narrow focus

on the physical effects of aging, 

that we might live out the righteousness 

you have imputed to us in Christ. 

For indeed, it is the “righteous 

[who] flourish like the palm tree 

and grow like a cedar in Lebanon” (Psalm 92:12). 

With our faith planted deeply in your Word, 

we will flourish in your eternal courts. 

With our hope firm like the roots of an ancient oak, 

we will “bear fruit in old age,” 

bringing forth new spiritual children 

until the day you call us home to you.

In Jesus’ righteous name. Amen.

Read Psalm 92.