I am a young Christian, the son of Christian parents, which for me is very honorable. My parents since their youth have served the Lord and this has been the fundamental basis for my Christian formation. However, this does not mean that we young people do not have wars with disordered desires of the flesh. The Apostle Paul calls this "youthful passions."
Youth is the number one target of Satan, who seeks by all means to destroy youth with vices related to drugs, alcohol and other youthful delights.
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In the book of Ecclesiastes, we find practical advice from God for us young people, pay close attention to this advice, and we will achieve the promise of long days on earth.
9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and take pleasure in your heart in the days of your adolescence; and walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes; But know that God will judge you on all these things. 0 Remove anger from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; because adolescence and youth are vanity.
Ecclesiastes 11: 9-10 New King James Version (RVR1960)
The Lord Himself recognizes that youth is a very joyous and curious stage of life. At this stage you want to enjoy, you want to do so many things at once, because you feel full of strength and energy. You want to do things on your own and ignore the advice of adults, because you think adults are out of date.
Youth is a jewel of life, that's how I see it and how I consider it, we want to do everything and be curious in everything. We want to have all kinds of pleasures and to have the best girlfriend and the best fashion clothes, with the best haircut that is in fashion with youth.
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The Lord teaches us in his word that, although young people have all the pleasures and pleasures of the world, we must be clear that adolescence and youth are vanity. All of this is temporary and we will soon enter adulthood and not realize it. God commands us to remove from our hearts all vanity of our youth and order our ways with his word. We must stop, in youthful debauchery, before it is too late.
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the bad days come and the years come when you say: I am not happy in them;
Ecclesiastes 12: 1 King James Version (RVR1960)
The Scriptures advise us that we must remember our creator in the days of our youth, that is, from the stage of adolescence, we must dedicate our strength and energy to serve God and put all the gifts and abilities at the service of the Lord. that he has given us for the growth of his church on earth.
We cannot wait to reach the stage of elderhood, and then seek Christ, because we have no other alternative, since we are close to abandoning earthly life. We have to serve God with the best of our lives, and that best life is the stage of youth.
God bless parents of teenage children who have instilled in them a fear of God from an early age.