To be getting older, who gains from the pain?

 Good morning. I know the value of having a great attitude, but i know the difference in flesh and Spirit. Through all my worldly success i never forgot 

reality. Gods reality. He said what does it profit a man if he should gain the whole world but lose his own soul? I found an old man who has been a believer since he was a young man but now he's old and has suffered much through out his life and has been observed by many. Look at Psalm 71 vs 7. The Bible says he was a wonder to people. Why? He had a life long devotion to the Lord. Yet he was not excused from persecution. Maybe it was astonishing how he was delivered from so many previous crises. Wow!  The psalmist for sure was spared to teach the message of his God reference vs 18. Maybe we should not focus on his faults but on our deliverence. Of course he was not sinless. Of course. he could not live with sin not professed. So many have said to me....God is not through with me yet. Now it seems as i am being led through 3 to 4 crisis at time, one by one God is working each one out. What Praise and honor He is due. If you only knew each of my battles, you could see Gods hand in my life. A few days back i actually sat and thought, Oh Father of my lord Jesus, what in the world is your purpose for all this?  All my life i have suffered. From childhood ...to now. Here it is! So God can get the glory. Wow! Seems observers have now begun to WONDER about me. All I've been through and now much more, and I'm still here? Now there's more to this than just my battles. I still glory in my God. The Psalmist is correct. His pain is my gain, and mine is someone's, and to lift up Christ and praise God, give Him the glory for it all is my honor to do so. It's my must. Maybe the Lord will allow me to continue on this subject later. Remember,  just because your born again, you are not excused from persecution. Glory be to God. Amen....so be it.