Don't let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say, "Life is not pleasant anymore." - Romans 12:1 (NLT)
Growing up, Mama taught me how to clean the house. I did the dishes. I cleaned the whole house and I cooked. In mama's house, as long as you could breathe, you could work. I have three sisters, and yet, mama didn't believe that guys just sat around all day playing video games. Everybody does something in my mom's house. If you can't work, you cannot stay.
Its been two years since I saw my parents and living away from home made me remember all the things my parents taught me about personal hygiene and cleanliness. I don't like living in a dirty place. I am my own chef and my own house help. In College, so many people cannot clean up after themselves . I thank God mama taught me how to do all those things at a very young age.
The best time to know God is when we are young. It's hard to forget God when we are older. This is the time to honor God. This is the time to have regular fellowship with God. There's been times I almost gave up on God. I have had problems that seemed to grow bigger and bigger. I would pray so hard to God for Him to lift them, and yet, sometimes they'd grow bigger, and other times, they disappeared as I prayed.
In 2016, I was leader of a group called scripture union. I was made prayer leader. My job was to pray. I lead prayer every morning before classes began, every day of the week for an entire year. Except for the weekend. As Scripture union, we met on Fridays for fellowship. We had what we called a chairperson. He was the leader of the entire fellowship. He was our pastor. I took scripture union seriously. It wasn't one of those groups I just wanted to be apart of, no. I really loved being apart of the wonderful family that God introduced me to.
Sometimes I preached on Fridays, but mostly, my pastor preached. Gabriel and I are still very close friends. We always encouraged one another. Many times, we used our money to help run the church. It was our church and we loved it. We hosted joint fellowships with other schools and really did have an amazing time.
I remember, how I would prepare for service. Preparation for service meant evangelizing. I went to all the classes that had humans, and gently asked them to join our services on Fridays. Mondays, I would evangelize. Wednesdays, I'd remind everybody I invited. And on Fridays, I'd check up on them. Our fellowship grew steadily and God was ever faithful. God's faithfulness will never be dependent on our faithfulness, God is faithful because that's just who is He is: A faithful God.
Sometimes, I didn't feel like doing it. Scripture union, took up a lot of my time. I didn't have time to visit friends or do what other people my age did. I was always thinking about what we'd need. Planning on events we'd have. Gabriel and I were close to each other. At the time, I lived near his place and so we'd walk home together after a service.
The best thing about being a believer is that God saves us from things that we would never save ourselves from. It was in 2016 that every one I knew was in a relationship. The relationships were not exactly pure. This was my environment. After school, everybody had somewhere to go. I was exhausted. I went straight home. I am thankful to God. Anything can entangle us as we get closer to God. I can only say, God has enough grace to preserve every Christian that wants to walk with Him.
Though I served God, I still had school. I was in my final year of school. I would have completed high school two years prior to the time, but, I hadn't and I still needed to study. It wasn't exactly easy, having school and being apart of my wonderful fellowship. However, if I could do it again, I would do the same thing. Being apart of Scripture Union saved me from my sins. It saved me from wandering way from God. It saved me from giving up on God.
I have been everything you could think of and I realize that the best thing for a young person to have is a relationship with God. It's very hard to live godly. It's very painful and sometimes lonely, but it saves us from all kinds of evil. The world is evil and not one Christian would survive it had Jesus not conquered the world. Am I asking you to become a pastor? No. I am not a pastor. Just hold on to God. Times will be tough. You will want to give up on Him, but hold on. God really knows the best for us, and if He says, we should remember Him when we are young, who are we to object to that?
I write about the sacrifice one would have to pay to live godly in the next chapter. Stay tuned.
Father, thank you. You are amazing. You are awesome. You are lovely. Thank you for being faithful. May you help us to remember you. May you help us to know you now when we are still young. This we ask in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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