Often you, young people, hear me preach from texts of Scripture that were written by older men or written about older men/women, and you may be tempted to think, “When I am older, then I will take my faith in Christ seriously, then I will study God's Word more diligently, then I will spend more time in prayer. Right now, I am just a youth, a teenager, a young man/woman. I've got plenty of time to become serious about my relationship with Christ.”
Young men/women, don't allow this temptation to settle in and become the way you think and act. Don't think for a moment that Jesus does not want to use you at your age to build His kingdom. He has a work to do in your life. He has work for you to do now, not just in the future. He may be training you now for that future work, but the work He has for you now is very important (even if it seems small and insignificant). Your work in your family and home, in school, in jobs outside the home, and in the church must not be wasted or considered unimportant. God speaks directly to you in His Word (Ecclesiastes 12:1; Ephesians 6:2-3; Proverbs 1:10; Proverbs 5:20; Proverbs 19:27). The Lord has included in His Word the example of children (like Samuel), teenagers (like Joseph, Daniel, Mary), and young men (like David and Timothy) in whose steps you are to walk in your youth. Rather than spending your youth on yourself and your pleasures, it is time for you to pray and meditate upon what God would have you to do for Him even now in your youth. Don't waste these years—use them for His glory. Your families and church need you. God uses the young to accomplish great things.
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