Your Best Days Are Still Ahead Of You (Part 1)

I’ve just turned 58, and I honestly can’t believe I’m already knocking on the door of 60. It doesn’t quite compute. Yes, I’ve lived an incredibly interesting and eventful life, but in many ways I still feel like that 18-year-old about to leave school, standing on the edge of life and still figuring out what I want to do and where I’m meant to go. My body lies to me all the time, telling me my knees ache every time I stand up or sit down. My mind tries to lie too, whispering that I’m becoming more forgetful and probably heading toward the so-called family curse of dementia. BUT! I’m choosing to believe God’s Word instead, which says my best days are still ahead of me. Most people think I’m nuts for thinking this way, but I’m being deliberately dogmatic about believing what God says, and here’s why…

As Your Days, So Shall Your Strength Be

The world and science tells us that weakness, sickness, and decline are just part of getting older. We’re told to expect less strength, less clarity, and less joy as the years go on.

But Scripture says something very different.

“As your days, so shall your strength be” (Deut. 33:25).

That promise doesn’t line up with the world’s thinking, which means something has to change. Not God’s word, but our thinking. Repentance isn’t about turning from bad behavior. It’s about changing the way we believe and speak. If we keep agreeing with the world’s expectation of decline, we’ll never fully step into what God promises.

Your best days are not behind you. According to God, they’re still ahead.

Recently, a Japanese Methodist pastor passed away at the age of 105. When the media interviewed people about his long life, they highlighted two things he often said: use olive oil in the morning and take the stairs instead of the elevator.

That’s good advice. No argument there.

But what the media didn’t emphasize was this: the man was strong, mentally sharp, and spiritually alive until the very end because he lived by faith and read God’s Word every single day. The world doesn’t want to acknowledge that part. It never does.

Still, we can learn from both. Yes, olive oil and stairs are wise. But faith, joy, and daily time in God’s Word are the deeper source of life and strength.

God’s desire is not just spiritual strength, but physical and moral strength too. They’re connected. And here’s something we often overlook: everything the Bible tells us not to do, when we continue doing it, will age us.

Anger. Bitterness. Unforgiveness. Etcetera…..

These are not harmless emotions. They are spiritual conditions that people often refuse to bring under self-control. And Scripture is clear about their effect.

Proverbs 17:22 says,
“A merry heart does good like a medicine,
But a broken spirit dries the bones.”

The Hebrew word translated “medicine” is marpe, which means healing, restoration, and health to the flesh. In other words, joy doesn’t just feel good. It produces life.

Then the verse continues: a broken spirit dries the bones. You won’t find that phrased quite like that in a medical textbook. But God’s wisdom goes deeper than surface science.

Proverbs 15:13 says,
“A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance,
But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.”

Put those together and the picture is clear. Sorrow that is held onto, nurtured, and allowed to settle in will break the spirit. And a broken spirit affects the body. It drains strength. It accelerates aging.

You might say, “But Proverbs is Old Testament.” Fair enough. So let’s confirm this truth under the New Covenant.

2 Corinthians 7:10 (The Passion Translation) says:
“For godly sorrow produces repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret. But worldly sorrow leads to death.”

Paul makes an important distinction here. Godly sorrow is the sadness we feel when we realize we’ve been wrong and need correction. That’s not pleasant, but it’s healthy. It leads us back to God, and we never regret that kind of sorrow.

Worldly sorrow is different. It doesn’t lead to repentance or restoration. It leads to death. Not always physical death right away, but death to joy, to hope, to motivation, and even to the body’s ability to renew itself. It wears people down. It ages them.

That’s why the enemy works so hard to keep people sad, discouraged, and depressed.

Look at the man Jesus delivered after crossing the Sea of Galilee. Scripture describes him as crying out, screaming, cutting himself, living among the tombs. He was in constant torment, aware of his condition, overwhelmed by sorrow and pain.

Does that really look unfamiliar today?

Many people live in that same internal state now. Different setting, same anguish. The answer then was Jesus. The answer now is still Jesus.

If we want strength as our days increase, we have to return to the things of the Spirit. God’s Word. God’s joy. God’s way of thinking. There is no substitute.

And there is no better promise than this: as your days are, so shall your strength be.

Part 2 will build on how to practically guard joy and renew strength daily.

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