“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.” Ecclesiastes 12:1.
Yes! in your youth, in the bright, fresh springtime of your life, while all is sunny before you, and while you are strong, remember your Creator. Give God your early days, your best days. How many a one has lamented in middle life that he did not give himself up to God in his youth!
“I am brought to God,” said one to us not long since, “but I have one deep regret, I have lived till my hair has grown gray and my strength has failed without Him. O, that I had turned to God in my youth.”
A few months afterward this man told us he was unable to fulfill his little service in helping on the work of the gospel, as age was telling on him. His heart was sound, but his strength had failed.
“In thy youth—in thy youth.”
Alliance with the world prevents our overcoming the world (2 Chron. 16:2-10).