Chris Tomlin Amazing Grace My Chains are gone with Lyrics

Life Begins @ Forty

Life Begins @ Forty is a very popular phrase and it is true! Take a look at this: We start learning and developing from age 0 to 20. As we grow, we learn both formally and informally. We learn many things till we graduate from college though these are only actually basic learning. From the home to the university. From the home to the community. Our parents our teachers. Our family our teachers. Our neighbors our teachers. Our friends our teachers. Our community our teachers. Our government our teachers. Our church our teachers. Our environment our teachers. What they teach us molds us to what we are at age 20.


From 21 to 40, we experience the world around us. We work and learn. We work and fail. We work and cry. We work and blend. We work and travel. We work and meet more people. We work and we love. We work and build family. We work and rear children. We are honed by all these through the years and we meet our Creator and our God.

Only then, at forty, our Life begins! Why? Because we become a new creation. When this happens, the old is gone and we are now a new one. It's just like mutation. New knowledge. New understanding. Wisdom sets in. New Life @ Forty!

Know that: Moses, the Prince of Egypt, learned and studied at the palace from 0 to 20. He left for the mountains and experienced life from 21 to 40 where he met God. Then he was used by God at 40 till death. It is the same way with us in a minute scale. Just like the functioning of a body cell to an entire body.