09/09/22 DON'T LET IT SLIP AWAY

09/09/22 DON'T LET IT SLIP AWAY

If you wait until your children are a teenagers, to lead them to salvation, you have missed their most important years for learning, development, social formation, establishing a Christian worldview. Not simply my opinion and certainly not contradictory to the revelation of God. WOW, what a terrible waste of time.

If a young person waits until he/she is past their teen years, they have been established in an anti-Christian worldview, been exposed to the vilest speech, behavior, thought processes, destructive philosophies, been set in many fleshly habits, adopted faulty logic and developed a network of anti-Christian friends, mentors, heroes, authorities.

If a young adult waits until they are in their thirties before they get saved, they will have spent their best years, their greatest energy and set their course for their vocational, economic, marital, social interest.

If a young adult waits until their forties to become a Christian they will have wasted over half of their life going in the wrong direction and it will be nearly impossible to turn them back to the way God would have had them go. They will have already led their children in an anti-Christian mindset and lifestyle. They will have habits, which will be nearly impossible to shake. Their stubbornness will make total commitment difficult to accept.

If a person waits until they are in their fifties, they will have lost most of their opportunities to serve God and witness effectively to the lost.

If a person waits until their sixties or seventies they may save their soul but they would have wasted life, at least most of their lifetime, even if they continue to enjoy good health. Still, converting at this late stage is highly unlikely. 

Better trust in the Lord, now.

Ecclesiastes12:1-7
1 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;
2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.