Challenges
The Challenge
When you think, or speak, or read, or write,
When you sing, or walk, or seek for delight,
To be kept from all wrong when at home or abroad,
Live always as under the eyes of the Lord.
Whatever you think, never think what you feel
You would blush, in the presence of God to reveal;
Whatever you speak in a whisper or clear,
Say nothing you would not like Jesus to hear.
Whatever you read, though the page may allure,
Read nothing unless you are perfectly sure
Consternation would not be seen in your look,
If God should say solemnly, "Show Me that book!"
Whatever you write, though in haste or in heed,
Write nothing you would not like Jesus to read;
Whatever you sing, in the midst of your glees,
Sing nothing His listening ear would displease.
Wherever you go, never go where you'd fear
God's question being asked, "What doest thou here?"
Turn away from pleasures you'd shrink from pursuing,
If God should look down and say, "What are you doing?"
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your
good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven (Matt.
5: 16)
A Riddle from the Bible:
In ancient days two boys were born,
they were of strange relation.
Each one became a king,
The father of a nation.
They were their grandfather's only sons.
Their aunts were their real mothers.
Their sisters nursed them as their sons,
and yet they were their brothers.
WHO ARE THEY???
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The Teen
Commandments
1. Don't let your parents
down;
they brought you up.
2. Choose your companions
with care;
you become what they
are.
3. Be master of your
habits
or they will master
you.
4. Treasure your time;
don't spend it; invest
it.
5. Stand for something
or you will fall for
anything.
6. Select
only a date
who would
make a good mate.
7. See what you can
do for others;
not what they can do
for you.
8. Guard your thoughts;
what you think, you
are.
9. Don't fill up on
this world's crumbs;
feed your soul on the
Living Bread.
10. Give your all to
Christ;
He gave His all for
you.
Five
Points for Young Christians
Five things, if remembered, will
help you each day:
Obeyed, they will keep you from
going astray;
Though Satan may tempt you and trials
betide,
You surely will conquer, and in
Christ abide.
"Keep Looking
to Jesus," He never can fail
And walk in His footsteps in every
detail;
The world's vain allurements will
vanish from sight
By "looking to Jesus" your Saviour
and Light.
"Read Daily
Your Bible," If you would be strong
To witness for Jesus and overcome
wrong;
"The Author," "the Book," and "the
doer" abide,
But they who neglect it will surely
backslide.
"Pray Without
Ceasing." This will bring you to Him
Who cleanses and keeps you a victor
o'er sin;
There's nothing so great that our
God cannot do,
And nothing so small but He'll undertake
too.
"Confess Him
to Others," be bold for your King
To those who are lying in darkness
and sin;
What help can you better to all
recommend,
Than this blessed Jesus - the needy
one's Friend?
"Do Something
For Jesus," He did all for you,
Your joy find in willing His sweet
will to do;
So seeking to please Him through
life day by day
His presence shall gladden each
step of your way.
- J McIntosh -
Hold Fast
HOLD FAST TO TRUTH.
False gods, false men, false reasons,
Are pressing closer
on us every day;
And plots, confusions,
schemes, intrigues, and treasons,
Would lead unwary hearts
and souls away.
HOLD FAST TO FAITH.
Doubts, deeply multiplying,
Would draw the clouds
of darkness closer down;
And unbelief, like valley
mists low lying,
Shut out the glow of
heaven's starry crown.
HOLD FAST TO LOVE.
The earth is filled with hating.
Fierce anger, lust,
revenge, all clamor high,
While weary hearts are
waiting, waiting, waiting,
For gentle tone and
hand and kindly eye.
HOLD FAST TO PRAYER.
When all is gone but praying,
Pray on through lonely
watches of the night,
Until there come for
prayers your heart is saying,
From wildness rest,
and out of darkness light.
HOLD FAST TO GOD.
The world is ebbing, gliding,
Through your frail grass
its thread of slipping sands;
But God, The One all-constant,
all-abiding,
Unchanged of old, unchanging
ever stands.
- Eugene Rowell -
