ʻOld and full of yearsʼ

When the Bible comes to the end of Isaac’s life, Abraham’s son, we find these words written at the end of Genesis, Chapter 35: “Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years. Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people,” that is, to where his people had been buried, “old and full of years.”

That phrase kind of struck me, “old and full of years.” The scriptures weren’t just saying that he was an old man -- men did indeed live a long time back then – but, that his life had been full of meaning and purpose, and that God had fulfilled His will for this aged father of Israel. I got to wondering, when I reach that time when the clock of life will run out on me, can it be said of me that I was “old and full of years?”

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