In David’s time and
afterwards, the age of the Levites’ service was reduced to twenty years old (1
Chronicles 23:24). One reason could be the laborious work of carrying the
vessels and the Tabernacle was no longer needed as when they were wandering in
the wilderness and therefore, the younger men could be enrolled in the service
earlier.
The age from thirty to
fifty is the prime season of man's life for business. What are our young men
from age thirty to fifty most concerned and busy themselves with? There are
three:
1. Building their career.
2. Finding a wife.
3. Raising a family.
We have many teenage
boys who are faithful and active. But what happen when they reach thirty? Some
are no longer faithful. Some are still with us but are not active in the
church. Many have started a family, but they are not bringing their children in
the nurture and admonition of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4). They are too busy with
their career and ensuring their children excel in their secular education.
Family and work have replaced spiritual growth.
What is the result when
their own children grow up as young adults? They become unfaithful. Trust me;
look around for yourself: it is like father, like son.
The service of God
should be done when we are in the most active frame. Those who said they will
become active when their children have grown up never did! It came too late and
at a huge price of their own faith and the faith of their family.
Timothy, Titus, John
Mark, and the apostles, were young men when they began to follow Jesus and
serve Him. Paul told young Timothy: “Let no man despise thy youth; but be
thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in
spirit, in faith, in purity” (1 Timothy 4:12).
Young men and women, it
is good to excel in your career and be concerned with your family. You are more
blessed than the ninety percent population of this world when you have a job, a
good income, a loving family, a house of your own, a bank account, and good
health. Remember, you don’t have them if God has not blessed you: “But thou shalt remember the LORD thy
God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth,” (Deuteronomy 8:18).
James wrote: “Every good gift and every perfect
gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights,” (James 1:17).
What you have are God’s blessings to you. God gave them to you; what have you
given to God? God demands your service in return: “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye
stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye
know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:58).
Young men and women,
serve God while you are young and fit. Do not be distracted by the things of
this world. Success can be a blessing or a cursing; it depends on you. It is a
blessing, if it resulted in your gratitude to God and faithfulness to Him. It
becomes a curse if it resulted in you becoming entangled with it and becoming
unfaithful to God. Therefore, choose blessing because the result is eternal
life: “For he that soweth to his
flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit
shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting” (Galatians 6:8).
Young men and women: “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;” (Ecclesiastes 12:1). Yes, serve the
Lord; it has a greater reward!
Jimmy Lau
Psa 119:97 Oh how love I
thy law! It is my meditation all the day.
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