4 Things to Thank God Because You Are Young
Young people are blessed with so many things. And there actually lots of things that we need to thank God for those blessings. I listed here only four things to thank God for being young because these are the things that are really helpful to us as young people.
All Stirred Up
“Wherefore, I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance—knowing that shortly I must put off this, my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me.”
II Peter 1:12-14
Make Sure Your Calling
“Wherefore, the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure—for, if you do these things, you shall never fall.”
II Peter 1:10
Faith’s Additives
“And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue. . .and to virtue, knowledge. . . and to knowledge, temperance. . .and to temperance, patience… and to patience, Godliness. . . and to Godliness, brotherly kindness. . .and to brotherly kindness, charity—for, if these things be in you and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
II Peter 1:5-8
On Loving As Jesus Does
“Then said the Lord, ‘You have had pity on the gourd, for the which you have not labored, neither made it grow—which came up in a night and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand and also much cattle’?”
Jonah 4:10-11
On Anger and Bitterness
“But it displeased Jonah exceedingly and he was very angry. . .Then said the Lord, ‘Do you well to be angry?’. . .And he said, ‘I do well to be angry, even unto death’.”
Jonah 4:1, 4, 9b
Nothing Is Impossible With God
“So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them—for word came unto the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne and he laid his robe from him and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.”
Jonah 3:5-6
When the Task Is Too Great
“So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the Word of the Lord. Now Nineveh as an exceedingly great city of three days’ journey. And, Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey and he cried and said, ‘Yet 40 days and Nineveh shall be overthrown’.”
Jonah 3:2-4
Better Late Than Never
“And the Word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, ‘Arise, go up unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid you.’ So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the Word of the Lord. . .”
Jonah 3:1-3a