The last thing most young people want to do is put their trust in the Lord. Now many youngsters may put their trust in their dreams, or in their powerful intellect. They may boast in their bursting youthful energy, in their wrinkle-free face, in their gorgeous physique, or in the swift and gracious movement of
their amazing body. But to trust in the Lord? That's no way. And isn't that why too many young people miss out on God's glorious plan for their life?
But aged Africans love to boast that they trust in the Lord. They make it seem like the older we grow, and the richer in experience we get, the more prayerful we become. Yes, the more prayerful we get. The more dependent on God -- and the less dependent on ourselves or any other creature -- we become, as we age. But that's only a sobering testimony to the heart- wrenching lessons that failures and trust breaches teach.
In that light, we see that the nearer people draw to death, the clearer it appears that nothing counts greater than to trust in the Lord. To trust in the Lord, with the most precious thing that humans possess: our heart.
Aging teaches that once the coconut shell of life is finally cracked (often through bitter labours), most people end up face-to-face with the white essence of life: to trust in the Lord.
And they finally bow to God's sovereignty. They
accept the truth from which they had fled all their life. You see that? Now that all a youngster may put his trust in has gone up as dust in their life; now that they are left with nothing glorious -- in their feebleness and old age -- but their fainting heart, they are willing to give all that they have -- all their heart -- trusting the Lord.
Friend, isn't it a tremendous blessing that elderly people can teach young people through counsel what they cannot by example? That's perhaps what King Solomon aims at with these words: "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart."
You see, God doesn't want you to lose all of life's
beauties and all of your youthful glories before you begin to relish the white essence of life. You don't want to. You don't have to. God wants you to trust in Him, now, today, in your youth.
What's certain? God will crack life open for you. He will save you the sweat that sinners break as they blindly try to make life work for themselves.
And even when you walk in the valley of the shadow of death, as you travel through life, God's commandments will be your path lamp and His promises your staff of comfort. He will save you from a lot of heart-ache.
PRAYER: Dear Father in heaven, help me to trust you truly with my youthful heart. Amen.
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