"I wasted my life on things that didn't matter. It's too late to make a real difference."
How it sounds in your head: Looking back, I see so many years spent on trivial pursuits, relationships that went nowhere, opportunities I missed. Other women my age have legacy and impact. I have regrets and a stack of what-ifs. The clock has run out on significance.
"So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust."
-- Joel 2:25Enemy accusation exploiting hindsight regret and culture's lie that only certain accomplishments constitute meaningful life.
She compares her life to others' highlight reels and finds hers lacking. Friends have grandchildren graduating, mission trips, published books—she feels she has nothing to show for seven decades.
Moses spent 40 years in Pharaoh's palace, then 40 years as an unknown shepherd—80 years that looked 'wasted.' At 80, God gave him his defining assignment: deliver an entire nation, meet God face-to-face, write the Torah—his greatest impact came after age 80.
I REFUSE the lie that my years were wasted or that significance has an expiration date. IT IS WRITTEN that God restores the years the locusts have eaten—He redeems every moment I surrendered to regret. I am not behind; I am right on time for Heaven's assignments. IT IS WRITTEN that with long life He satisfies me and shows me His salvation. The BARAK blessing doesn't diminish with age—Abraham received the promise at 75 and saw Isaac at 100. My Moses moment may be NOW. I am not too late; I am being PREPARED for what matters most.
The Father is running toward you with a scroll of assignments labeled 'For My Daughter's Seventies.' He's whispering, 'Stop looking back at what the locusts ate—look at what I'm about to do through a woman who knows My faithfulness through decades of life.'