Do It As A Teen - Part 2

A few years back, I competed in a 33km mountain bike race. At the start line there was little me and and heaps of full grown adult men. As I looked at my competition I thought, "Heck, I don't stand a chance! I mean, look at all these buff looking dudes!" The whistle went and we began the race. Thinking most of the adults would want to overtake me I let them get ahead early, but as the race continued and people were starting to tire I found that I was starting to overtake most of my adult competition. It was the best feeling in the world when I saw the look on their faces as this skinny white boy powered ahead of them. After the race had ended I had a sudden realization, "I am only a teenager, yet today I outperformed most of the adults in the race! Are teenagers just as capable as adults?"

According to the Bible the answer to this question is technically yes. For in 1 Corinthians 13:11 we read,

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man I put childish ways behind me."

Well, the Bible says nothing about teenagers. There is no middle stage between childhood and adulthood.  It doesn't say:

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a teenager I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became a man I put teenaged ways behind me."


Well, that just popped your bubble didn't it? The Bible has a tendency to do that for us. God's Word says that we go from child to adult. Which is true. Think about it for a minute. We as teens have the body of an adult (once we go through puberty) and the thought capacity of an adult. We can do Algebra just as well as most adults. We as teenagers are freer than adults and have a more flexible schedule. So, why should we wait till we are an adult to do something big? Now is the best time to dream and now is the best time to fulfill those dreams! Do it as a teen.

In the next post I will show you the steps in finding and fulfilling your God given dream.

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