Hadn't waited so long to get serious about your relationship with God.

You can only imagine how much better your life and your family would have been if you hadn't waited so long to get serious about your relationship with God. As Joel 2:25-26 says: "I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten. God will work wonders for you that Only He Himself can restore to you for the time that was spent and wasted apart from Him and His perfect plans for you. Discover that though you may have missed out on the Lord's "Plan A" for your life, that if you will begin to wholeheartedly devote yourself to Him, He will begin to unfold a "Plan B" for you.

One divine promise that you can claim is Job 8:7: "And though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase." In the "latter end" part of this promise, it emphasizes blessings received later in life. One translation says, "He will make your later years very great."

As you get older, it's tempting to think that you should be slowing down and retiring from life. That may be the world's way, but that's certainly not God's way. The Bible says: "[The righteous] will still bear fruit in old age; they will stay fresh and green." (Psalm 92:14) Even if you've retired from your career and your job, the Lord has important work for you to do. If you will offer your life and your God-given gifts up to Him with sincerity, and if you will ask Him to use you for His glory, He will put you to work in His kingdom, and you will experience more meaning and purpose in your life than ever before. Then you will continue to "bear fruit" in your later years, and you will "stay fresh and green," instead of becoming idle and stagnant.

As you get older, you have a greater responsibility to bring more people into God's kingdom through your testimony and your example. As each succeeding generation gets further away from God, your part in the Great Commission becomes more valuable every day.

If you pondered how quickly your life is passing by, He will tell you, "The best is yet to come!" take this word of encouragement to heart today, and open the door to greater blessings and rewards than you've ever experienced before.

Thank the Lord to restore you the years that you've wasted living apart from Him and His plans for you. Surrender to Him all that you have, and all that you are. Ask to work in His kingdom, so that the gifts you’ve been given will be used for His glory, and for the good of others. And declare with total confidence and conviction, "The best is yet to come!"