remember your Creator in the days of your youth...

Was preparing for a sharing with my youth fellowship and I thought it will be useful for me to blog it down to remind myself the very things I shared with them in a forum setting:

In one statement, what is your advice to young people today?

Make ALL you do Today, an INVESTMENT in the Eternal tomorrow. (borrowed words from Alan Catchpoole)

Sometimes as Christians, we live disjointed lives, thinking that what we do now on earth has no bearing on our future in heaven. But if we truly understand what heaven is like, we will then know that God is simply restoring us back to what He originally created us for, a life without sin. So it is not so much a reset button He is pressing but a progressive change that is happening.

Have you ever found life boring? Why?

Of cos! Who doesn't in his/her lifetime? Why? Because the things we get ourselves involved in is never fully and totally satisfying. We will always be searching and trying things out this lifetime until we can arrive to a conclusion/thing which can take us through life. It is like a polar bear will only find true satisfaction when it is in the north pole/arctic circle. The zoo can do all they can to give the polar bear the simulated enviroment and chunky fish but it will never fully satisfy it. Similarly, what this world offers can never fully satisfy us. That's why we get bored. Music, fashion, games, they all keep changing cos they cannot fully satisfy. The sad thing is many of us are happy with what the world throws at us. But if we truly know the potential we are suppose to reach and have, we are missing out a lot in life.

How did you truly find satisfaction in God when there are many other attractive things?

It's difficult. I think there will always be this constant struggle. One moment we may think that we have overcomed an attraction, another attraction will draw our attention away. One way to ease that is when we know what truly matters. Think of a kid. Between the choice of his favorite gummy bear and a blank cheque, which one do you think he will take? Reason is simple. He don't understand the value of what the piece of paper can bring to him. And interestingly, here we are laughing at how "blur" that kid is but when someone older look at us, that is the same response they will give when they look at the way some of us are living and making decisions in life. It is interesting that Solomon asked us to remember our CREATOR. Why not remember your God? Or remember your Father? Because if we remember or know who made us and what He made us for, we will know how to live life in a satisfying way. Since He made us, He knows what will satisfy. Know who God truly is. Understand that. That might just help you find satisfaction in God greater than what the world can offer. We can either learn from fools or end up being the fool for people to learn from. I believe that there is nothing wrong with the attractive things in this world. I don't think God would want us to forgo wisdom and be stupid or to dress shabbily and portray an unkempt image. The only difference is it must be done in and within God's set boundary. Now that will be satisfying.