Instead of infancy, they think of a stage of innocence. Instead of childhood and youth, they think of a stage of wanting goodness and truth. Instead of adulthood they think of a stage of intelligence. And instead of old age they think of a stage of wisdom. Sermon One of the chronic pains in life is the friction between the passing generation and the coming generation.
Life is a process in which old things are changing into new ones, or the new things succeed the old.
Old things are bound to experience the birth pangs of new things which, in turn, become forgetful of the old things from which they came. I would like to look at the Bible and see how Jesus faced the same problem. We don't heal sick people on the Sabbath. We don't pick ears of grain in the field on the Sabbath. We don't sit with tax collectors or sinful women.