Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come
and the years approach when you will say,
“I find no pleasure in them”—
before the sun and the light
and the moon and the stars grow dark,
and the clouds return after the rain;
when the keepers of the house tremble,
and the strong men stoop,
when the grinders cease because they are few,
and those looking through the windows grow dim;
when the doors to the street are closed
and the sound of grinding fades;
when people rise up at the sound of birds,
but all their songs grow faint;
when people are afraid of heights
and of dangers in the streets;
when the almond tree blossoms
and the grasshopper drags itself along
and desire no longer is stirred.
Then people go to their eternal home
and mourners go about the streets.
This shows us that we get distracted. How easy is it to get lost in the culture that we live in today? So easy. Extremely easy. Before depression comes, remember your Creator.
Right now, we're "young adults." We have the awesome responsibility of being adults, but we still consider ourselves young. This will be the only time in our lives that we will be young, and adults. Jesus loves using young adults. His ministry began as a young adult. We have "ministry freedom." We have influences like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter etc. and we can use them to make God famous. Use also your youth to follow Jesus. The time is now to follow Him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl4q_mjggQw...This video, Following Jesus-Social Network Style, kind of has nothing and everything to do with these ideas I'm grasping for. But I thought it was pretty sick and has an underlying message of how we can honor Him through all our actions, including social media.
Right now are you following Jesus? I ask myself this all the time, am I truly following Him? Not because of the commitment I made when I was 10 to get baptized on Easter Sunday, but RIGHT NOW am I following Him? Mike Glenn, the senior Pastor at Brentwood Baptist Church who I've talked about before, says "EVERYONE has a spiritual gift God desires to be used in the life of His Church and the work of His Kingdom."
Our generation is called to do something great. We're so absorbed with our lives that we don't get it. We are called to leave it all behind and follow Him. And I know how hard that can be. Hard. But know that He asks this of us because He knows we're crazy enough to do it. We don't ask enough from people. we don't ask as much as Jesus asks. We're often afraid to be called on by God. We tell ourselves, knowingly or not, "please don't ask anything huge of me. Let me live a normal life…." We don't get it. We are scared and we are cowards. We need to believe in Him. Whole heartedly. Tell strangers about Him. The time is now to call others to follow Jesus. Multiply yourselves into the lives of others. We underestimate what we can do in a long period of time. Start walking NOW. There is no greater thing to give your life to. God asks us to give our lives up. Mike goes on to say, "Christ followers are citizens of the Kingdom of God. We're given work visas for our ministries and mission here." Invest in His Kingdom now so that you may invest in it forever.
The most powerful man in history of the world is with you,
Courtney
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