In this battle for the young, the battle is between God and satan. But the battle is over your life. You are the one who determines who takes the victory as a young person. That is why the Bible says you have to overcome the wicked one. You are the primary character in this epic battle for the prime period of your youth.
You have the choice to say ‘NO’ to the devil to sin and to the things that satan displays around you, and to say a big ‘YES’ to Jesus. That is what determines your future.
Perhaps, the battle has been so strong in your life that you decide to say yes to Jesus one moment but in the next moment, you change your mind and you are as unpredictable as the wind. You need to determine that such instability must stop right away, before the enemy of your soul gets an upper hand over your life.
The unfortunate thing about the battle for young is that the devil does not allow youth to look ahead. He blinds your eyes as a young man to think that life ends at the time of youth. Therefore when you should have taken a decision with the future in mind, you are deceived into concentrating on the present.
This is the critical moment for you as a young person. If you get it right at this time of your youth, then it will be well with you in the years ahead. You will have no cause to regret or bite your fingers.
I wish you have elders around you who will sincerely volunteer to tell you the stories of the wrong choices they made many years ago and how they are still suffering the consequences of those choices.
As I said earlier on, your life is a fresh ground ahead of you that is not yet spoilt but I must tell you this, it is being fiercely contested.
Between Jesus and the devil, whom do you choose? Whom do yo9u want to follow? The friends that you have today will not always be with you all your years.
You will suddenly discover that the friend who leads you into trouble will desert you as soon as you sink into that trouble. He may have escaped and gone his own way. He may return to be part of the team that will ridicule you and tell the world about you, exposing your sad predicament.
Even though the Almighty God is beckoning to you, waiting with His mighty power to save, to forgive you and to reset your direction, He will not do anything until you say a definite YES to Him and a big NO to satan. This is how to lay the foundation of your life and win the battle now that you are young.
Enough is enough, take a stand!
Perhaps you have even started to make mistakes. There is something you need to know as a matter of great importance…
The mistakes that you have made do not constitute the real problem, the problem will be to continue in them.
The years you have spent out of your life presently are very few compared with those that lie ahead of you. You still have years enough to build the right future.
Is it reasonable to go on and destroy five million because of the five hundred that have been spoilt? NO! it does not make any sense to sit and weep over spilt milk, or an egg that has been broken.
Whatever has been done till now, I wish you will say as I said many years ago, the time I have spent for the old man (the flesh), is enough. I will now live for Jesus forever. Bygone is bygone. Old man, it is bygone forever.
Watch out for part 2…