We're The Young, We're Alright?

Ecclesiastes 12 1...7 "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.” ... Yes, remember your Creator now while you are young, before the silver cord of life snaps and the golden bowl is broken. Don’t wait until the water jar is smashed at the spring and the pulley is broken at the well. For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it."



You may want to read the passage above in the full chapter rather than just the part I have given here. It sums up life in a small chapter.



The idea of the book of Ecclesiates is that everything is meaningless without Jesus. Hence the first line here "Don’t let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator." Don't be too busy enjoying life on Earth and forgetting God. It goes on to say in verse 8 "Everything is meaningless," says the Teacher, "completely meaningless."



God created Earth, and so it is meaningless without a belief in God.

Imagine you make some food, but you're not actually hungry, the food now has no point to it whatsoever except to decay and rot away leaving you with nothing. You will have nothing when you are then later on hungry.



Never be too busy to remember and talk to God our Creator.

Ecclesiates 11:9 - "Young people, it's wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do."



Hello? I'm sorry, did you miss something there?

GIVE AN ACCOUNT TO GOD IN EVERYTHING YOU DO

not just some things

or not at all.



Verse 10 then says: "So refuse to worry, and keep your body healthy. But remember that youth, with a whole life before you, is meaningless."



Life is not to be something that you forget God in, or anything you should worry about.



I'll give you two simple instructions:

1) Don't worry about your life,
2) Consult God in everything you do!

I'll leave you with this also...

1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.