Honoring God does not mean merely thinking about God on occasion. It means to relate to God, walk with God, discover God, learn to know God while you are young. There are two excellent reasons given for this.
First, “before the years take their toll.” Old age is setting in, and one of the characteristics of old age is that we lose motivation to change; we are subjected to greater pressures. Those days become “times of trouble.”
Temptation is all around us—subtle and powerful—drawing us away from the truth of God. But it gets worse the older we grow. The pressure to conform is greater as we move out into life and business; when we become parents and establish homes. Thus, it is good to remember and enjoy our Creator while we are still young.
Second, the Searcher says days are coming “when your vigor wanes.” That is, when we will say, “I’m not motivated at all.” A tragedy for some people is to know that certain windows of their lives have closed, and they missed their opportunity for improvement. Thus, the Searcher urges us, “Learn about God now. Learn the Scriptures now, when you are young, while motivation is high and pressures are fewer.”
Consider our Lord, Jesus. He grew up in a godly home, exposed to the truth of the Scripture. The only thing that is recorded of Him in those days is given in the words, “Jesus became wiser and stronger. He also became more and more pleasing to God and to people. (Luke 2:52).” He manifested such wisdom that, when He was 12, He astonished the teachers in the temple, asking penetrating questions they could not answer. Then He went back with His mother and father to finish His boyhood in that home in Nazareth, having “remembered His Creator while He was young.”
Have we experienced the joy of knowing our Creator? It’s never too late to willingly root and grow in Christ.
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