Show ml I ar m iv 9 g ro 1 J He Here Her Is a Life Lad Ladder der for Youth i iBy ny IT pf Stanley Jones Joncs 7 I Tim 2 51 2 Eccles 12 We Ve will begin with youth the first stage stage in m ne t fe ao T a ladder to climb vi H 1 Y You U ar r an n awakening personality let lel yo your whole le being being- body and spirit spIrit wak k n simultaneously sy In th the stage b physical a y f n ng some young oung people b become a i aware of re their bodies and es especially eci y tf f U the fact pf of sex This js s ng m arid and right But it i ip possible pos pos- sible o o bec become m S so sY t tangled up in iti sex thou thought that you yow become come ome body body- body This may degenerate degener te nto to habits of self- self abuse J and the cult culture of the mi mind d and soul be so 50 that you become a amere mere merc physical hulk hung You ou ou must awaken in n y your r total person person person-in m l your mind and soul as s well well as in D or r. r body or r. r you you ou will willbe willbe willbe be st stunted m in Imp it nt of your being L 2 Find a a. a clause a Se 16 t to which jo you can devote devote devote de de- de- de vote your energies and which will give life meaning coherence and goal That cause is the kingdom of God Seek ye first fast the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you If you get the first thing first then your life will come out right If It you you get the wrong thing first then nothing will come out light 3 Find a person who embodies that cause a cause a person to whom when you are loyal you me are loyal to that cause That Person is Christ When you are arc loyal to Him then you are loyal to Gods God's order i I embodied in Him the Him the kingdom The kingdom kingdom king king- dom dorn meets you personalized ed You are not giving yourself to an Impersonal order but butto butto butto to an order that has become warm and tender and personal in Christ 4 Make your life Ilfe decisions yourself yourself- dont don't drift Some allow their circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- circum- circum stances or their companions to decide their life decisions fo fOJ for th them m. m They don dont don't t at- at they react f I L 5 5 Dont Dont Don't revolt against the older gr group up and then merely echo your own group That is substituting one bondage for an an- other When your group is wrong wrong dare dare to be different Dont Don't act by pressures but by principles O 0 God I am beginning this business of living Jiving in a serious way I 1 want a way I dont don't want to drift from wave to wave of meaningless emotion I I want a way If Thou 0 O Christ art the way I will follow follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low Thee through thick and U through t popularity or through disfavor I want wait a a cause Thou cause Thou art that ca caise cause s I choose cloose Qs Amen From From the bo book bod i bunda t Liv LV- lug ing published by Cokesbury Abingdon-Cokesbury Pi Press ess Copyright |