A Word to Young Men

From: The Christian Shepherd: 2001

• 1 min. read • grade level: 6

“I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one” (1 John 2:14¹⁴I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. (1 John 2:14)).

All Christ’s thoughts and life were the expression of the Word of God abiding in Him. He was the Word, the living Word.

So what characterizes the young men is having the Word abiding in them. It is not merely recollecting something to say or finding out something in the Word when one wants it, but the Word of God must be the spring of one’s actions.

This is what he means by the Word of God “abiding in you.” A young man does not fly to it just when he wants it, but he lives in it. Thus, God’s words living in his mind, he knows all that is in the world is not of the Father.

J. N. Darby

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