"I'm just taking up resources that younger people need more—I should decrease so they can increase."
How it sounds in your head: Healthcare costs, Social Security, retirement funds—I'm draining systems that the next generation needs. Maybe it would be better if people my age just stepped aside and stopped consuming what others could use. I feel guilty for still being here.
"Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them."
-- Psalm 139:16Source: Enemy's death wish disguised as nobility and the world's utilitarian view that values contribution over existence.
She hears political rhetoric about entitlement programs and generational wealth gaps. She sees younger people struggling financially and feels like her generation took too much and left too little.
85 years old and demanded his inheritance—the MOUNTAIN with the GIANTS on it. Refused to step aside for younger men, declared 'I am as strong today as I was forty years ago,' and took the hardest territory for himself—older and bolder.
I REFUSE the lie that my existence is a burden or that I should decrease to make room. IT IS WRITTEN that ALL my days were written in His book before one of them came to be—I am here BY DIVINE APPOINTMENT. The enemy comes to kill and destroy, but Jesus came to give ABUNDANT LIFE. IT IS WRITTEN in Deuteronomy 28 that I am blessed coming in and going out, the HEAD and not the tail. I am Abraham's seed covered by the BARAK blessing, which includes God's provision that doesn't run out. The Father didn't ask Caleb to step aside at 85—He gave him a MOUNTAIN, and He's still handing me territory.
The Father isn't rationing resources hoping you'll die soon to make room—He pre-planned every day of your life and His supply doesn't run dry. You're here because HE WANTS YOU HERE, and there's MORE than enough.