It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Lamentations 3:27-29
What strong yet hopeful words Jeremiah puts forth regarding youthful years. Why is it that Carl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, and others were so interested in the youth of their culture?
They understood that our early years often form the person we become.
Today, many can look back and see that their struggles are residual from their younger years. They may have had a rough life, and the influences in their lives were sinful. Maybe the yoke others placed on them was unbearable; therefore, they are not the people they would like to be.
Some might say, “Life isn’t fair,” and that is true. However, that admission confesses there must be something better, and there is. When you accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, God declares you a new creation! He sets your life on a far different path from your upbringing and past. And He gives you a new heart ready to be trained in the things of God.
Spiritual training, like physical training, begins with exercise. First Timothy 4:7 exhorts, “...exercise yourself toward godliness.” God promises victory over the weight of your past through the healing power of His Word, but you must strive to obey it.
Train your heart to praise and worship God in all things, and nurture thankfulness by focusing on what you have rather than what you don’t have. Finally, be patient. Change takes time and is uncomfortable, but the effects of your youth will begin to fade.
That, my friend, is the way to a brighter future, no matter how old you are.
Watching for Our Blessed Hope
𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐮𝐜𝐤: 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞
Jesus said, “The thief [false teachers and ultimately Satan because false teachers are subject to Satan] cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (Jn. 10:1.
The writer to the Hebrews said, “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil” (Heb. 2:14).
God created Adam and Eve in bodies of flesh and blood, but Satan came to deceive and destroy them.
Jesus could have come as a spirit being (God; a burning bush; a pillar of cloud, a pillar of fire, etc.), but He came in a body of flesh and blood like Adam and Eve (like you and I) so He could die and destroy Satan, who had power over death.
Jesus also died so He could rise again and take away the fear of death.
His resurrection proved that death and the grave could not destroy Him.
Jesus was indestructible.
Death and the grave were temporary for Him.
God can make people and nations indestructible just like Jesus.
The gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church (will not totally destroy it).
The 144,000 Jewish evangelists will be indestructible during the Tribulation Period (they will be sealed, and not even one will die by the hands of the Antichrist or in the terrible disasters).
The Two Witnesses will be indestructible for three and one-half years, then they will be killed, but God will raise them from the dead (their death will be temporary).
Samson was indestructible as long as he didn’t allow his hair to be cut.
Israel cannot be permanently destroyed because God made a covenant to give the Promised Land to Israel.
Satan is doing his best to inspire radical Islam to destroy Israel, but He cannot do it.
He goes about as a roaring lion (I Pet. 5:8), but someone said he is a toothless roaring lion.
The Rapture will prove that death and the grave are temporary for true Christians.
Consider this:
“Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; the Lord of Hosts is his name; If those ordinances depart from me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel shall cease being a nation before me for ever” (Jer. 31:35-36).
Israel’s enemies would have to destroy the sun, moon, and stars to destroy Israel, and that is not going to happen.
As I see it, Satan has blinded them into setting up their own destruction.
Here are some recent events that seem to indicate that the end of the age is here......
https://www.raptureready.com/2....025/05/31/indestruct
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