One of the great challenges for young people is to plan ahead to the future – to make decisions based upon wisdom and foresight. Personal growth is stunted when we made decisions based upon today’s feelings or the immediate result alone. Robert Louis Stevenson said, “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” As you make your journey into new phases of life, remember that you are planting seeds for the future.
Where shall you continue your education? Who will you marry? How will you spend and invest money? Where will you live? What habits will you acquire or abandon? How deeply will you allow the Lord into your heart? These are the decisions you make that will steer the course of the rest of your life.
Those are giant questions that require great wisdom – probably more wisdom than you possess. So seek the wisdom you need from those you trust. Talk to your parents about the important issues of life. Look to the elderly mothers and fathers of faith that surround you in the church. Seek their input and thoughts…they’ve been where you are. Vigorously search the Scriptures, because there is light for your path to be found there. Finally, study the teachings of Jesus the Christ. There is nothing more profound in the world.
Congratulations Graduates! You are surrounded today by people who love and support you. We cannot wait to see how God will work in your life.
– John Dobbs
