Reasons for Exhorting [Young] Men

The Gospel for Life

Reasons for Exhorting [Young] Men
The danger behind allowing the formation of habits.
 It is difficult to change a person’s hearts once habits are formed.
 Habits have deep roots. Once sin is allowed to settle in your heart, it will not be turned out at your bidding. Custom becomes second nature, and its chains are not easily broken.
 Habits are like stones rolling downhill – the further they roll, the faster and more ungovernable is their course. Habits, like tress, are strengthened by age. A boy may bend an oak when it is a sapling – a hundred men cannot root
it up when it is a full-grown.
 So it is with habits; the older the stronger – the longer they have held possession, the harder they will be to cast out.
 They grow with our growth, and strengthen with our strength. Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
 Believe me, you cannot stand still in your souls – you are either getting nearer to God or further off. Habits of good or evil are daily strengthening in your hearts.
Ignorance of the devil is not bliss.
 Young men, beware of being taken by the devil’s snares. He will try to throw dust in your eyes, and prevent you from seeing anything in its true colors. He would eagerly make you think that evil is good, and good is evil. He will
paint, cover with gold, and dress up sin, in order to make you fall in love with it.
 He will exalt the pleasures of wickedness – but he will hide from you the sting. He will lift up before your eyes the cross and its painfulness – but will keep out of sight the eternal crown. He will promise you everything, as he did to Christ, if you will only serve Him. He will even help you to wear a form of Christianity, if you will only neglect the power. Remember, your enemy is mighty, restless and cunning.

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