Our enemy says: “Youth is for fun; middle age, for business; old age, by religion ?. The Bible says: “Youth, fiftieth and old age are for its Creator. “
However, since it is mainly in youth when we are more inclined (decided?) To forget our Creator, it is in these years that we must work, above all, to remember our Creator (Ec 12. 1). Remember that he created you, meets your needs, takes care of you, assists you and controls you, and remembers that he can save you. There’s a lot to remember, but it gets easier when you start memorizing when you’re young!
- However.
- This is not the only reason God commands us to remember the Creator in our youth.
- He sends it to us because young people are the years of our greatest strength.
Why should we wait to die, to be exhausted, to have almost lost our vigour to serve the Creator?The God who created us deserves our healthiest and most active years: our body is strong and robust, our minds are sharp and clear, our senses are receptive, sharp and receptive, our enthusiasm is bright and firm, our will is determined and tenacious. Remember the Creator in his vigorous years.
Why are we more Christian in our youth than in our middle or old age?Because the youth years are years of sensitivity. Without abandoning our belief in “Total Depravity,” we can say that it is “easier” to repent and believe when you are younger. It’s never easy, but it’s easier. And it is easier because, as we age, our hearts harden, our consciousness more cauterized, our sins, more rooted, and our state of death, more serious.
Let us use our youthful sensitivity and receptivity to remember our Creator before the bad days of insensitive indifference come.
We learn more in our youth than at any other time in life, this is true in all areas, but it is particularly true in religious education All Christians I know who converted to Christ in the last years of their lives express deep sadness at how little they know and how little they can learn at their age. I encourage you to appreciate and use all the time the Lord gives you, but you often feel that you have to study twice as much to learn only half.
The youthful years are full of minefields: hormones, group pressure, alcohol, drugs, pornography, immorality, testosterone, etc. Few go through these unexploded years here and there, do dangers abound everywhere?How many? First, temptations have become the last temptations. How much we need our Creator to keep us and guide us on this battlefield.
I’d like to offer you some tips to help you remember your Creator during these better ones (and?Pires?) Years:
And as we talk on the subject of salvation, I don’t want older readers to get discouraged. Compared to the ages of eternity, you are always in your “youth”. It is not too late to remember, before the bad days are getting closer and closer.