Do you have a bucket list like Davids? Psalm 69-71

Psalms 71:18-21 (NASBStr)

And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me,

Until I declare Your strength to this generation,

Your power to all who are to come.

 For Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens,

You who have done great things;

O God, who is like You?

 You who have shown me many troubles and distresses

Will revive me again,

And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

 May You increase my greatness

And turn to comfort me.

David is reaching the end of his life.   As he does so there are certain aspects of his life he would like to reach.  This is David's bucket list.   Note the contents:

1.  In old age he doesn't want God to forsake him.   Earlier in this chapter (71) he recognizes how God has been his God since His youth.   Solomon, David's son will forsake God in his old age.  So, too, many others recorded in Scripture.   David knows his own heart, however.   He knows he, too, will forsake God, but he prays that God will not forsake him.  

2.  In old David wants to make sure that they younger generation knows the power and Person of God.   He wants them to know what great things God has done and the heights of God's righteousness.   We sometimes allow the younger generation to simply carve their own truth.  David has a desire in his old age to assure that the younger generation knows both the character of God and the power of God.   

3.  At the end of life David wants to make sure that even when he finds himself in trouble and distress (and that will come, even in old age) that God is his source of deliverance.   We can, as age captures us, start to rely on our own imagination and mischief and skill sets for deliverance.  Not so with David.  He wants to make sure that the Deliverer is the same one at old age as it was in his youth. 

4.  Finally, in his old age David recognizes it is God's hand that makes him great.   David's legacy is not in his contributions, not in his actions and not in his own power.   David recognizes that his greatness is in the hand of God.   We don't get greatness and increase our greatness without God being the one who is there to comfort us and to grow us.   Being great without comfort is stress.   Being comfortable without greatness is cuddling.   God makes us great and comforts us at the same time.  

This is David's bucket list.  What's yours?