ADOLESCENTS

What will the adolescent years of our new millennium and decade bring?  Early adolescents focus sharply when their desire is strong, but adolescents are equally distracted when they lack interest.  In early adolescence primordial abstract thinking equates with a sort of abstract toddlerhood.  The freshness of abstract thought brings a new perspective to the growing mind.  I wonder if we as humans before God appear to be adolescents experimenting with abstract thinking in the spiritual realm.  We who think we are mature often because of human state appear as adolescents in God’s eyes.  Professing in our hearts to be wise we appear as fools when we function as if there is no God.  So with the minimal amount of wisdom as abstract toddlers we reflect on the year that has past and look towards the next new year.  Let us look to God so that our past concerns may fade as we reflect on His glory.  Let pray that adolescent  questioning -What if,  Will I,  Won’t they and Why did they do it that way-, will fade as we seek the one who 2000 years ago replaced the former way of approaching God with the new life of a resurrected Jesus.  We now bask in God’s grace and mercy.  We find things with which to worry our minds and hearts, but in the big scope of life most of our concerns will fade in the future as we look towards our unending life in Christ.