YOUNG people are wise if they profit by the advice of those wiser than themselves.
In the Bible there is much instruction and guidance for the young, and we shall do well if we begin this year by giving heed thereto.
And not only is there precept and instruction, but there are many examples and warnings also.
You remember young Samuel, how it is said,
“The child Samuel ministered before the Lord,” (1 Sam. 3:11And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision. (1 Samuel 3:1).) and when the Lord spoke to him, he, instructed by Eli, said, ‘Speak, for Thy servant heareth.’” Then we read how he grew up to be a man of God and an honorable servant of Jehovah. In the days of the wicked kings of Judah we read of a young boy who was crowned when he was only seven years of age, and although his father and relations had been wicked men, yet it could be said of young king Joash that “he did right in the sight of the Lord.”
Another young king of Judah was named Josiah. At the age of eight he became king over a nation that had departed from God and turned to idols. Yet he was 'not afraid to stem the torrent of idolatry, and when a boy of sixteen years of age lie "began to seek after the God of 'David his father." We might say at that age he was converted.
Have you been converted? If not, won't you begin by taking the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour Now?
Four years afterwards, Josiah, now a young man of twenty, began his great life's work of "purging Judah and Jerusalem," from the worship of images, and reintroducing the worship of the true God. Read for yourselves the beautiful story in 2 Kings 22: 23, how Josiah turned to the Lord, with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might.
Follow his example, my dear young reader. Live for Christ, and then on your voyage over the sea of life, you need fear neither rocks nor storms, for you will have One with you who is all-powerful to keep, and all-wise to guide, to the bright haven above where all His own will safely gather home at last, when the storms of life are past for evermore.
Messages of God’s Love 5/29/1932