Read Zechariah 14:7
As we journey through life, many look toward old age or death with quiet fear — but God’s promise shines like a sunrise in reverse: “At evening time, it shall be light.” For the child of God, the twilight years are not a time of fading, but of deepening glow. The storms of youth have passed, the waves grow gentler, and the nearing shore of heaven gleams brighter with each passing day. The Lord often fills the later years of His saints with a holy calm, a peace born not of strength, but of surrender.
Though the fires of early passion may burn lower, the flame of love for Christ burns purer and steadier. Many an aged believer has testified that the sweetest songs are sung at sunset, and that the air grows more fragrant as heaven draws near. They live in the borderland of glory — that “Beulah Land” where angels whisper, where trials lose their sting, and where the light of eternity begins to spill across the soul.
And when at last the shadow of death falls, faith sees what sight cannot. The world may say, “The light is fading,” but heaven declares, “The dawn has come.” The believer does not sink into darkness but rises into day — into the everlasting light of God’s presence, where night shall be no more.
So do not fear the evening. The same God who gave you light in the morning of your life will not leave you in its dusk. The sunset of the faithful is the prelude to eternal sunrise.
Life Application
View old age not as decline, but as ripening grace.
Trust that death is not the end, but the beginning of true light.
Spend your remaining days shining with gratitude, peace, and readiness to see His face.
Prayer
Lord of the Day and the Night, as my years advance and shadows lengthen, let Your light shine brighter within me. When strength fades, be my strength; when vision dims, be my sight. Teach me to rest in the promise that even at evening time, there shall be light — the light of Your presence, the dawn of eternal day. Amen.
Bp. Paul Solomon Maglaya
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