Ecclesiastes 11:9 Young people, enjoy your youth. Be happy while you are still young. Do what you want to do, and follow your heart’s desire. But remember that God is going to judge you for whatever you do.
If you follow doing what is good and loving, you’re set. Try and avoid this generation’s trap of sexual immorality being portrayed as okay. I think a lot more movies and video games are permissible than you’d think, but if they’re filled with cursing and can corrupt ya, avoid em.
Do what you want, but avoid going evil. Try and be good and loving in everything. God will judge us. We should be thankful for this that he is our judge, and not some mob, or random corrupt judge. Even if God judges us guilty, we can easily plead to Jesus for forgiveness. :) Still, lead this life selflessly and helping others so we stack up less sins on our heads. The message of Jesus is to repent of sins which means trying to do them less often.
Can we debunk one lie: Young people should be encouraged to do good always, not told to make mistakes to learn.
Jesus saves sinners. A person can lead a vile life and turn it around in an instant and repent of it and be saved with Jesus. But just because we can have sinned all we did, once we know Jesus, we should avoid sin the best we can.
Kids may hear,”A guy who’s been through a mess makes a better messenger.” And who can’t be swayed from someone who wrecked their lives on drugs and is clean now. There’s so many dangers in drugs, and many people are dying to heroin every day.
I think kids are better off if they don’t get involved in messes to begin with. Tell kids they should be good and loving always. People will listen to them still. People may look up to them for being able to have it together.
Look, if you’ve been through a mess, and you feel bad about it, don’t. With Jesus, you’re spotless and pure. And if you lived a life where you really can’t think of making a mistake, you just did because we all make mistakes, but not everyone can see their own sins. Just be happy you’re doing your best though. Jesus is our leader, we should try and be as sin free as possible once we find out that we should be.
My prayer is that you encourage young people to be on the right track. Tell them God is always watching so don’t sin. Be good and loving always. The world can use more unity through love and brothership and you get that in Jesus.
Reflections when I was young about marriage
Back when I was young in the early 1980s, there wasn’t media overload. Sure you had some atari 2600 video games, but they weren’t endless games, and the games got boring after just a few minutes. You had some movies, but we didn’t have VCRs/DVDs/Netflix or cable. So entertainment was limited. I think that’s one of the reasons I became a game designer and computer programmer, but that’s a story for another day.
How did we fill our days? Well doing different stuff. Getting bored was always possible. I just remember one time when I was quite young, I was staring out the window counting cars that go by on my rural street. I was thinking about my mom and dad’s marriage before I even knew adult reasons why to marry.
I thought,”It is pretty good to live together with someone and share your life with them. Sharing life means as you get old, you have memories of doing stuff with them when you’re young. Someday I might want to get married to a girl so we can share a life together.”
My parents had a good marriage when I was young, but not so much later. I saw what there is in a good marriage even when though I didn’t know anything about the intimate part of it. Sometimes today I wonder if I could even marry someone who I couldn’t be intimate with because I saw how a good marriage was without even factoring in that. I then tell myself,”There’s no point in marrying someone you can’t be intimate with because there’s so many women and you can’t marry more than one, so I don’t have to put myself out there for everyone.” Yet if tragedy struck and intimacy was no longer possible after marrying her, I’d see myself stay with my wife and not leave her.
I sometimes wonder how people meet new people. I’ve only been on one random date in the past 8 years. I’m middle aged now, and I wonder if I’ll ever have another girlfriend let alone a wife. I spend most of my time behind my computer trying to write software for a profit so I can pay off student loans, and I preach online about Jesus. I’m cool with living life in servitude of God and helping others until I die. I always say God’s will be done. I just see myself on the tipping point of if I get a few years older that it’s too late as I don’t want to marry a woman unless her and I still have some youth in us. I guess I’ve never began to study the art of meeting new people. Sorry, this got into the reflections of when I’m older about my status. I just wanted to say that I’ve had a good notion on how great it’d be to love someone day in and day out for marriage before I even factored intimacy in it.