While you are young how do you prepare the future
In 1985, I was invited to preach at a Professor’s daughter’s wedding.
You can imagine the cream of the society seated; Professors, Doctors, Businessmen and Women, high ranking government officials’ etc. men and women who seems to have made their mark in the world.
As I brought the word of life to the young couple, who were just starting their journey into marriage, I set fourth principle after principle of how God designed the home to work. God enabled him to bring out the message with clear instruction and illustrations.
He also permitted me to share living testimonies of how the principles have worked both in my personal experience and in several homes I have been privileged to watch over.
After the service two people came to me, one after the other. The first man, quiet elderly, looked at me, adjusted his spectacles and said…
“Young man I wish I met you in 1943. If I have met you forty-two years ago and heard what you are preaching now, I would not have been what I am today. What can I do now? I have spoilt my life, I have wasted my marriage, and I don’t even know where to begin again. I wish I had met you then.” Where were you when I just married he added rhetorically.
I did not answer, I could not. I knew he was not expecting an answer from me. As I stood there looking at an old man shedding tears, I also wish I had met him then!
The second person was the wife of one of the University Professor. She walked up to me, looked at me with eyes full of regret and said…
“Well, I thank you for all you have said. For me it is too late but I am going to buy the tapes for my daughter so that she will not go the way I went.”
All through the day, I could not get their words out of my mind. So, a man can hear the word of God too late! So, wrong choices made early in life may never be correctable again later on in life!
I suddenly realized the great privileged of being young. I realized the prime value of being a youth. I became clear that there are things that must happen to me as a youth if I will not live my adult years in regret.
Wrong choice in any man will always produce a negative result so make the right choices and at the right time and your future will ever be protected with an unbroken chain.
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