Tuesday, 30 June 2015
A CHALLENGE TO THE 21ST CENTURY TEENAGER AND YOUTH.
By Elvis Elvis
Article One.
Consider this ...
Many people tend to think of today's
youth as the leaders of tomorrow.
But Scripture never places us in such
a category. It never instructs us to
wait until we are more mature or
knowledgeable or skilled before we
begin to take God's Word seriously
and consider what plans and
purposes the Lord has for our lives.
According to God's Word, we are to
be leaders even today who earnestly
desire to honor and serve our Lord
in all our thoughts and actions. Paul
told Timothy, a younger man in the
faith, ;"Let no man despise thy youth;
but be thou an example of the
believers, in word, in conversation,
in charity, in spirit, in faith, in
purity" (1 Tim. 4:12). God
specifically commands us, as young
people, to be leaders—to lead by
example. We are to understand
God's instructions to us and let the
world watch us grow in our spiritual
walk with the Lord.
As a young person myself, I am
burdened for the church in the days
ahead, and I am burdened for
today's youth who must not only
strive to live exemplary lives right
now (that is, a life that is an example
for others to follow), but who will
one day attempt to serve as faithful
leaders within the body of Christ, the
church. I am burdened because it is
not getting any easier to live in this
world. I am burdened because young
Christians today often fail to
understand that God desires to have
a close, intimate relationship with
them right now, a relationship that
only comes about when we obey the
Scriptures. Sadly, many young people
often feel as though God will only use
them or speak to them through His
Word when they grow older. Yet this
is certainly not true!
I know that many adults do not
always provide the right examples
for us to follow. Some are downright
hypocritical. Others do not even
seem to care what God's Word has to
say at all. Others may truly desire to
follow Christ but find themselves
more interested in what some
individual has to say or what some
program has to offer rather than
what God's Word teaches. Today, as
many older believers tend to
disregard the teaching of God's Word
in order to be accepted by others, we
who are younger are witnessing this
tragic compromise, this disregard for
Biblical truth.
To be contd.
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