Unfortunately being young comes only once in a lifetime. No one can be young more than once. As a lady you cannot be “sweet sixteen” more than once. Once you pass the age of sixteen, it is clear that you can never be sixteen again. However the time of youth is also the period of making choices. And the choices at this prime time of life are such that make indelible marks on one’s life and destiny.
There is a battle going on in this world concerning young people and it is all about influencing their choices. Choices that will mark your life out for greatness and glory are made when you are young. If you meet an accomplished old man, prosperous and celebrated, enjoying the care of his equally successful children, it did not just happen somewhere in his old age. It is the product of a series of wise choices that he made while in his teens and twenties.
On the other hand choices that will predispose you to perpetual defeat and failure are also made when you are young. If you see an old woman whose marriage has scattered and she is being pushed between one man and another, it is not likely to be due to choices she made when she has become that old. She laid the foundation to be that kind of woman when she was young!
The unfortunate thing about these choices is that whether they were consciously or unconsciously, they are often irreversible. The time of youth is not only one of making choices; it is also the time for laying the foundation for every aspect of life. It is at this time you lay the foundation for your career in life, your marriage and your destiny. In fact, everything that you will become in life is being founded now in the time of you youth. It is a time of tremendous strength and energy, a time of freshness. It is the time of all your nerves and instincts are seeking the strongest expression.
The direction you plague them, now that you are young, determines the destination you will reap in the years ahead. This time of your youth is a very crucial time that determines what happens for the rest of your life. The time of one’s youth is also the time of warfare. This is when you pitch your tent on which side you choose in the battle of life.
And you either choose satan or God.
And it is this time of your life when you are called ‘the youth’ that you make that choice. God is out, mercifully looking for you, so that you will make him your choice; but the devil is also fighting hard, to make sure he has you on his side.
That is why the council of the word of God to anyone who is a youth is; So remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them” (Eccl. 12:1) (NET) If you overcome in this battle now that you are young and make the Lord your choice, you will always overcome in every sphere of your life.
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