020205 - "remember your Creator in the days of your youth"

"11:9.Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these God will bring you into judgement. 10.Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity. 12:1.Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you say, 'I have no pleasure in them'. 6.Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher shattered at the fountain, or the well broken at the wall." Ecclesiastes 11:9-10, 12:1,6

This is the passage that God spoke to me today. noticed how many times the word "youth" appears. it appears for 4 times, and in 3 consecutive verses - 11:9, 10 and the following chapter 12:1. God emphasizes for us to "Remember [our] Creator" (in the days of our youth). Also, the phrase "Remember your Creator" appears 2 times in less than 6 verses apart. This is indeed important. God wants us to make full use of our youth. He gives us several metaphors - (v6.) "before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher shattered at the fountain, or the well broken at the wall" all these hints to us that we better treasure and make full use of our youth before it is too late.

1 month have passed. it is feb le. what have we done with our lives in the past month? have we tried to achieve what we have set out to do? have we drawn closer and personal to God? i just wanna encourage all of us to take a moment to think abt this. and if we have not been productive for the past month, i pray that we will cry out to God, we will say God, come and help us Lord...use the remaining 11 months to raise me up. Lord, empower me, so that i'll rise up and to be that light for the world.

west2ers, im very happy to see such unity in our cell grp...but we have remained in our comfort-zone for quite some time le. we need to sit up and pray. we need to see new blood entering the cell. we need to see the cell multiply. we need to see many lives coming back to God. we need to see many lost souls found. let us all arise and pray and intercede for our friends, our loved ones and all the unsaved souls. let us run this race together one. let us walk together in one seeing the wall fall and the world conquered for our Lord Jesus Christ!