*Ted Williams, at age 42, slammed a home run in his last official time at bat.
Mickey Mantle, age 20, hit 23 home runs his first full year in the major leagues.
*Golda Meir was 71 when she became Prime Minister of Israel.
William Pitt, II, was 24 when he became Prime Minister of Great Britain.
*George Bernard Shaw was 94 when one of his plays was first produced.
Mozart was just seven when his first composition was published.
*Benjamin Franklin was a newspaper columnist at 16, and a framer of The United States Constitution when he was 81.
(Charles Swindoll, “Living Above the Level of Mediocrity,” p. 104).
You’re never too young or too old to serve God. Jesus just said, “Come and follow Me” (Matthew 19:21).
“I have been young, and now I am old…” (Psalm 37:25).
I add to the above a quote of Psalms 91:12-14 and a couple of comments: The Psalmist said, “The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green.” I like the emphasis
on yielding fruit and being full of sap and very green in old age. God can use us in whatever age of life if we will let Him. I say to all of us old folks, are you yet bearing fruit? Will it be said of me and you, “he/she was full of sap and very green?”
— Les Ferguson Sr., S. Huntington Church of Christ
