Subject: Old Age - Maturity - Ecclesiastes 11-12

Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Subject:  Growing Old - Maturity

In the previous chapter the "Preacher" starts to tell his readers about the future of old age:

 Ecclesiastes 11:7-8
Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.
So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

Darkness is coming.   Chapter 12 begins with a poem about the plight of old age.  The writer uses a decaying house and failing moments to depict the diminished capacity of old age.   This is why he begins with the above verse.  We are to remember the Creator in the days of our youth.   He doesn't tell us to remember the days of our youth. He tells us to remember the "Creator" in the days of our youth. He is not merely reminiscing about youth.   He is not simply telling us to remember the good times.  He is telling us focus on God in our youth.  The reason for this is that in old age we lose our strength, beauty, whit and simply enjoyment of a good nights sleep.   In youth we see people worship their bodies, focus on their education and take the little things for granted.  The Preacher is telling us to focus on the Creator and not these temporal things.  They will all pass away.   The only thing that is left, especially in old is, is our relationships with Yahweh!!!   God created us and we need to focus on the Creator not His creation we see in the mirror.   Rejoice in your knowledge and relationship with Him and the old age thing, when it happens, will be less traumatic.