🌟 Youthful Age: A Gift You Must Not Waste

✍️ Delivered by: Anutanwa Kosisochukwu
📌 Inspired by: GOA Community

🌱 Introduction

There are many trends and pressures in society today, especially aimed at different age groups. But in this reflection, let’s focus on the youth—the heart of any generation, the hope of any community, and the engine of every future.

Youthful age is a season filled with strength, vision, and opportunity. It’s the stage of life when you decide the path you will walk.
And yes, the decisions you make now will either be the foundation of your joy or the source of future regret.

💪 Why Youthful Age Matters

Youth is not just about being young—it is your moment of power:

• Power to build

• Power to become

• Power to decide

You will face failures. You may experience confusion. But giving up is not an option.
You have the gift of strength—use it.

The Bible even acknowledges youthful age:

“Rejoice, O young man, in your youth... but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.” – Ecclesiastes 11:9

In other words: Live with joy, but also with responsibility.

👿 You Are a Target—But You Can Overcome

The world today is not friendly to the youth. The enemy knows that young people carry life, vision, and power, and that’s why:

• He seeks to distract you

• To steal your time

• To kill your joy

• To destroy your future

But the truth is—you hold the key to what your tomorrow will look like.

🛏️ The Bed You Make Is the One You’ll Lie On

Let’s break this down:

• “Making your bed” represents the choices you make in your youth

• “Lying on it” represents your old age, when those choices bear fruit—either joy or regret

You can’t bend dry wood. Once you’re old, there are fewer chances to reshape your path.
So now, while your wood is fresh—shape it well.

📌 Practical Ways to Maximize Your Youth

• ✅ Be productive. Don’t disappoint yourself with laziness or procrastination.

• ✅ Engage in skills and education. Learn something—anything. Build value into your life.

• ✅ Stop wasting time. Don’t say “I still have time”—time doesn’t wait.

• ✅ Make God your center. Faith is powerful, but faith without work is dead.

  Pray. But also act. Dream. But also build.

🎯 Final Word

Your youthful age is your pride, your glow, your birthright.
It’s the one time in life when everything is still possible.

So guard it. Value it. Use it.

The most beautiful thing is reaching old age, looking back, and saying:
“I made the right decisions when I was young.”

📣 DO NOT WASTE YOUR YOUTHFUL AGE.

📌 INSPIRED BY: GOA Community
✍️ DELIVERED BY: Anutanwa Kosisochukwu