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Re: The Proverbs: Practicality in Everyday Life [message #6162 is a reply to message #6160]

Thu, 29 October 2009 03:47

james
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Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

You're right in saying that children of today need Godly instructors, but really children of every generation has needed this, from biblical times until now. And we all have traveled different roads of life, and it does seem that the disrespect and distain for authority is rampant today in our youth; but I don't think there ever has been a generation of rebelliousness among young people like the generation I grew up in, the 60's.

I find myself being reminded quite often, when I'm thinking or saying something negative concerning kids today, God can turn them to Him just like He did me. (And this isn't in any way a correction or admonition of your observation, you're right...I just know a LOT about being a rebell and disobedient to parents, and Jesus turned my life around.)

But I did have a Godly mother who taught me the Bible and instructed me in the ways of righteousness, and though I disregarded it for 28 years...God's Word proved to be true unto her; when I got 'older' I didn't depart from it. That seed planted came up at God's appointed time. If there's anything we can be doing for todays youth, it would be praying, as you said, for them to have Godly parents/grandparents sowing The Word into their lives. Many times when I'm sharing with young folks, I have to tell them that I'm certainly no better than them, and everything I'm telling them that's wrong and sinful, I have done myself. But if a person has to have lived a sinless perfect life in order to share and teach others, then there wouldn't be any one to help them. Really sometimes when I think about how dumb something some kid is doing, saying, or acting like; I just get a fresh appreciation for who God is and His power to transform a person.

And speaking of wisdom, when I was a young man, I was indestructible and I knew EVERYTHING; as I grew up in The Lord and got a few years on me, I became aware of just how DEPENDENT I was on Him, and that I knew practically NOTHING. But now when The Holy Spirit gives me wisdom in an area, I feel so humbled, knowing how arrogant and foolish I was without Him. What a mighty God we serve!

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“But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,”

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