29/05/2025
Just because it's summer doesn't mean you have a lot of time to both enjoy pleasure and then serve the Lord if you're a Christian; just because each month has 30-31 days doesn't mean you have enough days to do everything, and just because a year has 12 months doesn't mean you have a lot of days & nights to decide whether or not to serve the Lord.
You know what they say: TIME IS GOLD.
And truly, time is everything. If you don't know whether you're saved or not, then you need to act fast, but you don't have to go so far as going to every source you can find on how to get to Heaven when there is only ONE source: the Bible.
Time is everything. If you don't know what path you shall choose, serve the Lord or not, don't say, "I have enough time to decide." Well, tell that to the Lord in prayer, but if you know the days are becoming wicked, are you still going to wait for time and then respond quickly?
And if you wonder, how shall I serve the Lord in the midst of the evil days? GO SOULWINNING.
How to do soulwinning? LEARN FROM A SOUL-WINNING LEADER.
How to be a soul-winning leader? TAKE DISCIPLESHIP.
How to achieve discipleship? SUBMIT TO GODLY AUTHORITY.
Is that too much for you?
If you don't like it, then GET OUT! You're not even worthy anyways if you choose to cower, make excuses, and avoid straight disciplinary standards.
Like the account of Gideon with the 300 disciplined men and thousands of cowards out of the Army of the Lord, if you choose to waste time, you'll never achieve anything in the greater glory of God. You may achieve some grades, medals, and papers in this world, but this world is temporary, while the things of God are eternal. That's why you shouldn't only live your life for just what you're stuck with just because of "I've been raised this way," or "I had a trauma from childhood," or "nobody understands me" excuses. And what's with the "nobody understands you," hmm?
Nobody, but what about God?
God does understand, but He can't "break" His standards of faithful children for you who are more unfaithful & time-wasting than those who are faithful & time-redeeming to do greater things for God.
So if you choose the word "God understands me" and continue to live in idleness, laziness, and unfaithfulness, don't expect anything great from God for you because God doesn't reward the slacker with any good thing, only the faithful.
You're still young. Are you going to wait for your hair to turn grey and then you'll serve the Lord?
Can you run as fast as a 20-year-old?
Can you memorize God's words like students?
Can you carry heavy loads like adults?
Can you last a week or more like workers?
Can you stand boldly before the next generation knowing you didn't do anything in the service of the Lord before your hair turned grey?
Young people, it's high time to reconsider your ways in these wicked days. It's time to make a decision, and it's time to come unto God more than ever and become faithful to Him by getting closer to Him.
DEVOTION BREAK | YOUNG PEOPLE: DON'T WASTE THE TIME!
Ecclesiastes 12:1 (KJB 1611)
"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;"
Devotion by Enli8hten
GABCM Biñan, Laguna
