Don’t let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say, “Life is not pleasant anymore.”
LUKE 15:18-19 (NLT)
I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’
SUMMARY SENTENCE
If we are God-minded in our youth it will shape us so that we're gracious and forbearing during the challenging years of old age.
DAILY FODDER
Forbearing: showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment (Definition from Vocabulary.com)
PRAYER
Jesus, I love your story of the prodigal son and how the old father was so forgiving when he returned home. What a great picture of your grace! I'm not very forbearing. Help me become so God-minded that I act like the father in the story. I want to become gracious and forbearing like you. Amen!
Our Father in Heaven,
we hold your name in the highest regard.
Please come and establish your reign here on earth
so that everything that happens here will align
with what is happening in heaven.
Give us enough food for today.
Forgive us our wrongdoing,
and we’ll forgive those who wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.
and we’ll forgive those who wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.
