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Youth — Part 2
“For Thou art my hope, O Lord God: Thou art my trust from my youth … O God, Thou hast taught me from my youth” (Psalm 71:5, 17).
There is a great blessing in giving the Lord the best days of our lives.
In your youth give yourself to God for His service and honor. In your youth be out and out for Christ, be a good soldier for Him. Do not say in your heart, “Why shouldn’t I enjoy the world and its joys (pleasures) as others do?” Jesus, the Son of God beckons you to a nobler, more fulfilled life; He call us to self-sacrifice and devotion, in which you shall have joys beyond all that this world ever gave its servants.
Dear young Christian, the truly happy life is the one that is given to the Lord. There are more joys found in the service of Christ than in all the pleasures of the world. The appeal is to you now in your youth to devote yourself to Him. The Apostle Paul encouraged Timothy in this regard when he said, “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 Timothy 4:12).
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