Days of Your Youth

Offers Exhortations:

• Rejoice in your youth
• Remove sorrow and evil
• Remember God
• Reflect upon the future

Youth Has No Guarantee Of Future

• Death is no respecter of persons
• No one is promised the future
• Life is truly a vapor - James 4:14-17
• The Lord is coming - 2 Peter 3

Misspent Youth Can Curse Your Future

• Reap what you sow - Ga 6:7-8
• The danger of sowing "wild oats"
• Ex: rebellion, lying, stealing, fornication

"Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable."
La Bruyere

Well Spent Youth Can Bless Your Future

• The foolish and wise child
• Wise child will show his wisdom
• Eph 6:1-3; 1 Cor. 9:27; Ga 3:26-27
• Ga 5:22-24; 1 Tim 4:12
• Involved in remembering God

Conclusion

• No one can be forced
• Point out dangers when they don't
• Remind them of the benefits when they do
• God will remember us - Ecc. 11:9
• Will we remember God in the days of our Youth?