Remembering God in the days of your
youth is the only
guarantee that you will be able to realize all the possibilities of your life.
Some things are better done in the prime
of life because it will never be business as usual at old age. As at the time
God was talking to Joshua, he (Joshua) was already a shadow of his former self.
As far as heaven was concerned, he can no longer go the full distance. Age had
taken its toll on him. Enthusiasm had waned. Zeal and zest had nosedived . He
had run out of steam. The decrepitude of old age had set in and the law of
diminishing returns had taken its course.
Why don't
you serve God now that you are still strong, vibrant and fit for action? Why
don't you give God your life now
that you are a ball of fire? Why not let God step
across the threshold of your life now that you are full of life? (Psalm 110:3)?
The only way God can get maximum return on your life is for you to give him
your lifetime and that is only possible if you remember him in the days of your
youth. To remember God after you have devoted the better part of your life to
seeking the frivolities of this world is, as far as God is concerned, a belated
response. To say, "Here am I send me" to God when the season of youth
is over amounts to giving Him the leftovers of your life.
God is
pleased when we serve Him at old age
but much more pleased when we serve him in our youth . Solomon took the primrose
path so many young and energetic youths
are taking today and realized almost too late that those things he had lived
for are not worth
it. He realized after devoting almost a lifetime to chasing
shadows and called all he had lived for "vanity of vanities". May you
not go too far before you realize how far you should not have gone (Amen).
Don't wait
till old age. The difference between old
age and youth is strength . If there is anything you can offer God in youth
which you can't offer him at old age, it is strength. The bible says "The
glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is their grey
head" Prov.20:29. Once strength is gone,youth is over. Are you sublimating
or dissipating that strength? Are you using that strength to God's advantage?
Where do you expend that strength of your youth? At disco party or on the
mission field expanding God's kingdom? To pursue the vision of God for your
life or your own vision of being a fashion pundit and a show-stopper that can
cause human and traffic jam? Don't wait until after life has given you a raw
deal and you have come to your wit's end before saying YES to him. Now is the time to serve God . Now is the
most acceptable time with Him (2"• Corinthians 6:2). Now is the only
unit of time that
God recognizes . Remember Him now that you have a lot to offer Him (Eccl.12:1).
The LAMENTATION of Barzillai,as he declined King David's
invitation, lend credence to the fact that there is little one can do with the
arrival of old age "{2"• Samuel 19:32-36). He has arrived at that
season of life when you and I shall say, "I have no pleasure
in them" (Eccl. 12:1). The OFF-SEASON of life has set in. He
can no longer play FULL TIME on the pitch of life. Shouldn't Barzilla's lamentation motivate every young
man and woman to give God the best days of their lives? Shouldn't the poetic pictures of old age
graphically portrayed in ECCLESIATES 12 inspire the young to do what they can while they can (John 9:4)?
It has been
rightly said that the greatest comfort
of old age is a youth well-spent. Youth spent clubbing, partying, goofing
around, double-dating, triple
dating is a HARBINGER of a rueful adulthood and a miserable old age. But youth
spent fighting the Lord's battles, bringing enemy-occupied territory under the
imperial banner of the Lord Jesus Christ, promoting the CAUSE for which Jesus
lived and died will lay the foundation for a secured, prosperous and enviable
future (Job 36:11,12). To them that serve Him in their youth, He says;
"Even to your old age am he; and even to your hair (gray) hairs will I carry
you...(Isaiah 46:4). Decide your old age
today by giving Him your youth. Repent of your sins and surrender your life to
Jesus Christ. Serve Him now!
EXCERPT from: Ibrahim
Taiwo
(08069784689,
ibrotwo@yahoo.com)
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