"My skills are outdated. Technology passed me by and I'm useless now."
How it sounds in your head: They're talking about apps and platforms you've never heard of. You can barely work your phone. The world moved on without you, and what you spent decades mastering doesn't matter anymore in this digital age.
"The silver-haired head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness."
-- Proverbs 16:31World system that worships innovation over wisdom, confusing tools with worth, making worth contingent on relevance.
Job postings list software he's never used and requirements that didn't exist when he was trained. Younger people treat him like he's technologically incompetent, confirming his fears.
Zechariah was old, his wife barren, both 'well advanced in years' serving in an outdated temple system. God gave them the impossible—a son who would be the forerunner of Messiah—using two people the world had written off as past their prime.
I REFUSE the lie that my skills determine my provision. IT IS WRITTEN: my gray hair is a crown of glory. I am in Christ, which makes me Abraham's seed and heir according to PROMISE, not performance. The BARAK protected Abraham when he had no skills for Egypt, Isaac when he had no irrigation technology, Jacob when he had nothing but a staff. IT IS WRITTEN: I am blessed coming in and going out, in the city and in the field. My Father doesn't need my resume—He needs my willingness to receive.
The Father who gave Peter a coin in a fish's mouth didn't check Peter's accounting credentials first. He provides because of WHO HE IS, not because of what you can do.