The vanity of youth part one

 

The Vanity of Youth Part I

 

Ecclesiastes 11:8-10

8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

          If a man lives a long time and starts to boast about it, but the word says let him remember his days of darkness when he was a youth living in unrighteousness.  Those days of darkness were many days; all it was  was vanity, it was useless or rather worthless. The word says rejoice when you’re young and able to boast about how you’re too young to serve God.  You may say that you’ve got a life to live, so tell your parents that they’ve lived their lives and you got yours to live also; you boast that you’ve got plenty of time to serve God.  Whatever your heart is set on doing that will you do, and whatever your eyes are set on seeing that will you perform.

You figure that because you’re young that you can do whatever: go to the bars, chase the young women or boys, get drunk on liquor or alcohol, and get high on drugs.  So you think that because you are young and are a youth

 that God will let you get by until you get much older?  God says in his word that for all your wrong doing he will bring you into judgment.

Don’t get sad that God won’t let you get by being young at heart, surely, no one has gotten away with sin yet, and don’t think you will.  God requires people to serve him in their youth.  If you’re doing evil, just turn away from it by repenting, because your childhood and youth is worthless and in vain if you’re not living for God; it doesn’t mean nothing to him if you’re not living for him, and if you’re not living for him than you’re working against him.

          When you were a child, you go through stages of growing up, so you become more susceptible to the devil’s playground.  The devil wants to destroy you anyway, this is his goal, to kill, steal, and destroy young people lives through drugs, alcohol, suicide, sex, violence and the like.  If you learn to grow up right, you wouldn’t have any problems ending up right, and going backwards isn’t the same as going forward.  Consider your lives: the summertime blues, vanity of youth, fast cars, drugs alcohol, worshiping famous people as idols, doing anything to meet someone famous instead of getting to know Jesus as Lord and Savior.

Lamentations 3:27

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Psalms 144:4

4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.