The story is told of a woman who asked her adult grandson to review her finances for her. He carefully examined her papers and was happy to be able to tell her: "Grandma, you're in good shape. You have ample funds to provide for you until you're 115." She thought about this a moment and then asked, "But what will I do then?"
Why does this make us smile? Because her expectancy of a long life seemed without limits? A spiritual sense of our identity as God's loved and useful child, inseparable from Him, helps keep us active and expectant of good. The writer of First John speaks of God's great love for us, which is shown in the fact that we are called the sons of God. This is what we are, in fact, at this moment. See I John 3:1, 2 . And another book of the Bible records St. Paul as stating, "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ." Rom. 8:16, 17.
Even an old tree produces new leaves, not old ones.
