Renew Thy Youth Like The Eagle

By Robert Collier

Experience the life-changing power of Robert Collier with this unforgettable book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andura Publishing
• Release date: Oct 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220203739

Robert Collier

Robert Collier was an American author of self-help and New Thought metaphysical books in the 20th century. He was the nephew of Peter Fenelon Collier, founder of Collier's Weekly. He was involved in writing, editing, and research for most of his life

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Renew Thy Youth Like The Eagle

Robert Collier

"Age is a quality of mind:

If you have left your dream behind,

If hope is cold,

If you no longer look ahead,

If your ambition fires are dead—

Then you are old.

"But if from life you take the best,

And if in life you keep the jest,

If love you hold;

No matter how the years go by,

No matter how the birthdays fly,

You are not old."

Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s. — Ps. 103:5

Most people seem to think that the Bible was written for religious instruction only, that it is something far removed from their ordinary, work-a-day lives.

But what are the facts?

The early Scriptures are primarily the chronicles of a people, meant first and foremost to preserve for them those experiences and those discoveries that would help them in overcoming the difficulties and dangers of their primitive existence.

They tell of mighty men, and how one may become great and strong by doing as they did. They list some of the foods which they found most healthful, they give the sanitary laws which seemed to them of greatest value. And over and above all, they give the moral code that all should live by, and the methods by which one might count upon the help of Jehovah in time of need.

Search ye the Scriptures, we are told, for in them ye find the words of eternal life.

Much of our modern health regulations and medical practice was foreshadowed by the Mosaic Law.

The Bible is the Log Book of Experience. Through thousands of years, the wise men of old handed down the things they learned which might be most helpful to posterity. How else would you interpret this passage from Deuteronomy?

Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall COMMAND your children to observe to do. For this is not a vain thing for you, because IT IS YOUR LIFE (your health): and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land.

What loomed up as of greatest importance to primitive man? Health, strength, did it not? So we may well expect to find in the Scriptures the methods which, in the experience of the sages of old, were best calculated to produce strong men, mighty men, men who retained their vigor and youthfulness to a great age.

You see the promise of this running as a thread all through the Scriptures. As thy days, so shall thy strength be, we are assured in Deuteronomy. And again in the same book it is chronicled: And Moses was 120 years old when he died, yet was not his eyes dim, nor his natural force abated.

So sure did Moses feel that his teachings were right, so confident was he of results, that he dared offer this guarantee:

HEREBY YE SHALL KNOW THAT THE LORD HATH SENT ME: If these men (who obey me) die the common death of all men (in the prime of life), or if they be visited after the visitation of all men (stricken with divers ailments and diseases); THEN THE LORD HATH NOT SENT ME.

Go back over all the heroic figures in the Bible, and what trait do you