What we need to understand about youth
I just got back from a wonderful week with 20 youth at Camp Emmanuel youth camp. Some say that we have lost our way and the youth of the world are leading us into destruction.
Don’t believe them.
God is working in these young people in amazing ways and we need to open our eyes and see it.
These great young men and women eagerly spent time worshiping, studying scripture, playing and eating, all without excluding anyone. These youth are from a variety of backgrounds, but they came together. They spent a week without texting or facebook or malls or television and didn’t complain once. We might all learn from them. They came to camp to spend a week with God and with each other and they embraced the opportunity and grew. They grew in their walk with God, in their relationships with one another, and in their own maturity.
I am blessed to have spent this week with them.
So the next time you think the youth of this world have lost their way, maybe we need to take another look and see if it is we who have lost something; the ability to see with new eyes a world that is changing so fast that it is hard to keep up. Each of these youth at camp this week is working out their faith and growing in Christ in spite of a world that is trying to lead them away from God. So I am celebrating what God is doing in these young men and women as He grows them into all that He has created them to be.
To God be the Glory
