Culture often treats starting over later in life as a consolation prize. Scripture does not agree.
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“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.”
Joel 2:25 (KJV)
“And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will carry you; even I will bear, and will deliver you.”
Isaiah 46:4 (KJV)“They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing.”
Psalm 92:14 (KJV)Joel 2:25 is a promise of restoration for years that felt wasted or devoured — not years in your twenties, but whatever years the locusts ate. It doesn't tell you which years those were. It doesn't put a ceiling on when God can restore. Psalm 92:14 specifically says fruit in old age — not fruit despite old age, not fruit before old age, but fruit that belongs specifically to that season.