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Sunday, March 23, 2003
Alanib: Truths to be kept in mind by young people
By Tim R. Alanib
TRUTHS here are the qualities of being in accordance with experience, facts, or reality, conformity with fact.
The truths to be kept in mind by young ones are as follows:
* The ideal of a clean life.
Psalm 119:1: How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy word.
* The certainty of a day of reckoning.
Ecclesiastes 11:9: Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.
* The value of restraint.
Lamentations 3:27: It is good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his youth.
* The power of personal influence.
I Timothy 4:12: Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.
* The value of seriousness.
Titus 2:6;7: Likewise urge the young men to be sensible; in all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified.
* Moral strength is stronger than physical.
Proverbs 20:29: The glory of young men is their strength, and the honor of old men is their gray hair.
I John 2:13:14: I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father. I have written to you fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and have overcome the evil one.
Thoughts to live by:
* On purity: One day a young minister was being escorted through a coal mine. At the entrance of one of the dim passageways, he spied a beautiful white flower growing out of the black earth. "How can it blossom in such purity and radiance in this dirty mine?" the preacher asked. "Throw some coal dust on it and see for yourself," the guide replied. When he did, he was surprised that the fine, black particles slid right off the snowy petals, leaving the plant just as lovely and unstained as before. Its surface was so smooth that the grit and grime could not adhere to it.
* On restraint: Liberty exists in proportion to restraint. (Daniel Webster)
* On influence: My life shall touch a dozen lives before this day is done, leave countless marks for good or ill ere sets the evening sun. This is the wish I always wish, the prayer I always pray: Lord, may my life help other lives it touches by the way, (Plutarch)
* On seriousness: Human affairs are not worth of much seriousness, and yet one must take them seriously. (Plato)
* On moral strength: Television commentator Andy Rooney once announced his revulsion at the perverse sexual conduct increasingly evident in our culture. But pressure from special interest groups that promote immoral lifestyles coerced him to apologize.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Two things fill my heart with awe and never ceasing wonder: the starry heavens above me and the moral imperative within me. (Immanuel Kant)
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