HORSEPOWER

HORSE-POWA!

My heart is racing!

“Honour and enjoy your Creator while you're still young, before the years take their toll and your vigour wanes”

Eccles. 12:1

Here’s a prospect: the years are going to take their toll, gravity will win, and you are going to get old and wrinkly and weak sooner than you think! Nice, hey? Can you imagine putting your faith in something that will disappear, like your smooth skin (Pr 31:30 “beauty is fleeting”), or your big muscles (Psalm 147:10 “He's not impressed with horsepower; the size of our muscles means little to him.”)

So, how do we honour God and enjoy Jesus with our youthful vigour of “horsepower” and “muscles”?

Like this: “Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." (1 Peter 5:5)

The “Team strip”, the gear, that we pull on to make our “power-play” as young people has never gone out of fashion. We’ve always had to pull on that jersey of humility from God’s wardrobe, and use our amped-out-of-the-box, adrenalin-loaded energy to vigorously serve and to submit! Yup, that’s the mark of enduring power in a young person’s life. The next verse says, “So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and in his good time he will honour you.” (1 Peter 5:6) If you want to win the game, then play by the rules:

In God’s School, you honour Him, He’ll honour you all the days of your life, even when you’re a “old boy” or an “old girl”! (because you will be!)