I have long felt a desire to write a word of warning in “Messages of the Love of God,” to you, in regard to your daily walk before the world and other young believers as well. We are told in God’s word to live soberly and righteously in this present evil world. Why are we admonished to live thus? Is it not because we are prone to frivolity? Do we not, when meeting other young people, talk and laugh in a very light and frivolous manner, and that very often, after listening to a very solemn sermon by some older brother? Do you think this is pleasing to God? No, we feel that it is not.
Many times there have been words spoken that have reached the conscience of some young person who has not yet come out full for Christ, and Satan comes in by your light talk and takes up the solemn words of warning and they are lost, and the one whose conscience has been touched, is farther away than he was before. It is a solomn thing, my dear young friends.
If you had gone to the one whose conscience was exercised and spoken to him of Christ who died on the cross for his sins, and who was in grace patiently waiting his acceptance of the great sacrifice He has made, do you not think the result would have been very different? Yes, I think it would.
I do not think young Christians intend to do wrong in this way; they are simply thoughtless, but God’s Word tells us we have to give an account of every idle word spoken. I hope these few words may exercise your consciences, my dear young friends, and may God have all the glory.
ML 07/08/1945