Today I want to bring up a topic that really goes with a bible verse which I feel has been put on my heart to share with all of you.
The verse is 1st Timothy 4:12 ~ "Let know one despise your youth ,instead you should be an example to believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and purity." I love this verse because its basically saying that no matter how old you are, you should strive to be a role model for the people around you. Your age is just a number ,its not a level of maturity, or of knowledge, or of wisdom. Age is simply a number. This is something I have learned over the years as I've struggled making friends because I don't get along with my own age group. You can easily be one physical age and mentally connect with a completely different age. Your age measures your physical age on earth ,its not a calculation of your mental maturity level. This took me some time to understand, once I began connecting with people my mental age and not my physical age I was able to begin to start striving to reach my full mental potential. Having older friends pushes me to work harder and having them push me keeps me going.
You see, no matter how old you are, your never to young to be a role model or to inspire others. Often times you may hear the saying "Bless and be blessed" that is more true than you will ever know. The feeling you get when your able to help someone through a rough time or be a role model for that little girl down the street, those are some of the best feelings you can ever be blessed enough to receive. When you have the privilege and honor to bless others its like lighting a torch not only in their heart but in yours as well, and the more you use your torch to light others ,then the more your torch's flames ignite. Its like a forest fire, it starts small but once it spreads, it keeps spreading and eventually you have an entire forest fire of flames. What I would like you to think about today is how can you start a forest fire? If you have the privilege of lighting someone else's torch than they go and light someone else's, so on and so fourth. That fire continues to grow and soon that one torch you lit, that spark you created can become a forest fire.
Strive to inspire and bless to be blessed ,see how joyful blessing others can truly make you. Try lighting someone else's torch and maybe together we can all be apart of starting that forest fire across our town, than our state, our country and maybe even our world. We may all just be sparks ,but it only takes one spark to strike a flame and one flame to start a fire!
The verse is 1st Timothy 4:12 ~ "Let know one despise your youth ,instead you should be an example to believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and purity." I love this verse because its basically saying that no matter how old you are, you should strive to be a role model for the people around you. Your age is just a number ,its not a level of maturity, or of knowledge, or of wisdom. Age is simply a number. This is something I have learned over the years as I've struggled making friends because I don't get along with my own age group. You can easily be one physical age and mentally connect with a completely different age. Your age measures your physical age on earth ,its not a calculation of your mental maturity level. This took me some time to understand, once I began connecting with people my mental age and not my physical age I was able to begin to start striving to reach my full mental potential. Having older friends pushes me to work harder and having them push me keeps me going.
You see, no matter how old you are, your never to young to be a role model or to inspire others. Often times you may hear the saying "Bless and be blessed" that is more true than you will ever know. The feeling you get when your able to help someone through a rough time or be a role model for that little girl down the street, those are some of the best feelings you can ever be blessed enough to receive. When you have the privilege and honor to bless others its like lighting a torch not only in their heart but in yours as well, and the more you use your torch to light others ,then the more your torch's flames ignite. Its like a forest fire, it starts small but once it spreads, it keeps spreading and eventually you have an entire forest fire of flames. What I would like you to think about today is how can you start a forest fire? If you have the privilege of lighting someone else's torch than they go and light someone else's, so on and so fourth. That fire continues to grow and soon that one torch you lit, that spark you created can become a forest fire.
Strive to inspire and bless to be blessed ,see how joyful blessing others can truly make you. Try lighting someone else's torch and maybe together we can all be apart of starting that forest fire across our town, than our state, our country and maybe even our world. We may all just be sparks ,but it only takes one spark to strike a flame and one flame to start a fire!
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