Your mid-life

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Your mid-life event

• What is your life? (James 414)
• How can I best serve and honor God at THIS
  stage of my life?

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Middle-Age Stages

• Younger (35-45)
• Mid (45-55)
• Older (55-65)

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Davids Mid-Life Experience

• Psalm 55 Setting
• Vv. 4-5 anguish, terror, death, fear and
  trembling, horror
• Why? Vv. 12-14, 20-21 a friends betrayal
• Calls for vengeance on enemies Vv. 9, 15, 23
  (see Rom. 1218ff.).

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Davids Mid-Life Experience

• Davids approach
• Begins to fantasize (vv. 6-7)
• No one can fly away, but some try to hidedevils
  work.

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Wanna Get Away?

• Psalm 556-7
• Not getting any younger, kids grown, life passing
  you by, life is mundane, ego taking a hit
• How do others see you? Always something
  Moody Avoid

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What did David do?

• Philippians 46-7
• Took his complaint to God Psalm 551-2
• He put his trust in God Psalm 5516-19, 23 (I
  Jn. 513ff.)
• He was able to instruct others Psalm 5522

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• Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed
  it, the hungrier it gets.
•  Nietzsche  Whenever I climb I am followed by a
  dog called 'Ego'.
• I Peter 55-8 Philippians 346-711
• 2 Corinthians 35

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What is your life?

• Those who wait until the 11th hour to repent
  often die at 1030