SIGNIFICANCE

One of the main problems of growing old is that a person loses all sense of significance. Their significance has been dependent on their job or their family. Now when they retire from their job and are no longer needed as a parent, they lose their sense of significance and worth.
The solution to this loss of personal significance is Jesus. To experience the solution the person must accept the death of Christ as payment for his sins, this bridges the gap between him and God. Then a person must acknowledge Christ's right to direct and control his life. When he does this he brings his life in line with the Creator as His obedient creature.
When a person has done these two things he is put in a position where he can center his life in the context of God's will. The person becomes alive to God and is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, who is working God's will in him. Now each moment of the person's life is part of a meaningful whole, the context of which is the eternal purpose of the sovereign God of the universe.
So the person's life as a whole and in every detail has significance, in the will and purpose of God. This significance will not fade with retirement from a job or with the departure of one's children. Jobs will come to an end. One's children will grow and leave, but God and his will, always will give significance and meaning to life.