BUILDING UP OUR YOUTH!

BUILDING UP OUR YOUTH!


We have to RESPECT
Our aged in this world=
But we have to
BUILD UP our youth too!


BASED on the youth
That I know
The FUTURE
Looks bright for us


“Do NOT NEGLECT
The gift you have........” 1 Timothy 4:14


Paul writes this to YOUNG Timothy
Attempting to BUILD him up


Our culture tends to
IDOLIZE YOUTH=how wonderful
It would be
To be young again


And KNOW what I know now=
We should be KINDER
To our aged
But we should be kinder
To our YOUTH TOO


Instead of being
PREJUDICED against our young people


BUILDING UP our youth!
Our young people today
Just as much


As in Saint Paul's day
NEED loving care and mentoring
The kind that Paul
ATTEMPTS to give
His friend-Timothy


“Don't let anyone
Look down on you
Because you are YOUNG
But set an example
In speech


In conduct
In love
In faith
And in purity


Until I come
Devote yourself
To the public reading
Of Scripture


To preaching
And to teaching” 1 Timothy 4:12-13


When I look
At my NIECES
When I look at
A lot of the
YOUNG PEOPLE=that I know


I see some cause
FOR OPTIMISM


The GIFTS that they have
Are much
And they need
TO BE CHERISHED
And drawn out wisely


“I was YOUNG
And now I am old


Yet I have never seen
The righteous forsaken


Or their children
Begging bread” Psalm 37:25


“The glory of YOUNG MEN
Is their strength


Gray hair
The splendor of the old” Proverbs 20:29


“I am writing to you
YOUNG MEN


Because you have overcome
The evil one” 1 John 2:13


Our YOUTH need the WORD
Of God=they need to know
The UNIQUE IMAGES of God


Just as Paul brought
The WORD to Timothy
It is up to us
To BRING the good word


And SET the example
For our young


BUILDING UP OUR YOUTH!


Dear Lord=help us to BE OPEN
Tot the WORD=
And bring it
TO OUR YOUTH!


In Jesus' name


Robert P. Wallman
9-18-19




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Mary Marrocco