Mr. Wafula Noah
Vice Chairperson
Ndejje University Christian Union
Bachelor of Civil Engineering - Year 4.
Mr. Wafula Noah with his translator Mr. Emmanuel Damalo at ICC Lugalo
Ecclesiastes 12: 1
Remember
your creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and years
approach when you will say I find no pleasure in them.
The bible teaches that ‘No one is wiser
than God.’
1 Timothy 1:17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever, Amen
King Solomon according to the scriptures
was the wisest man who lives before Jesus Christ. God endowed Solomon with
superior wisdom beyond what any man could comprehend.
Now this very wisest man on earth comes
in our opening scripture after he had searched for wisdom and sought to
understand life; and says
‘Remember you creator in the days of your
youth before the evil days come…’
Brothers and Sisters, this is a warning
that we ought to take at heart and consider in our lives.
Verse 3 says; ‘In the day when the keepers of the house tremble…
In my little understanding, the keepers
of the house are the hands,
…and the strong men bow down
The strong men here he means the
knees/feet/legs, so he means when the knees/feet/legs can no longer support you
upright.
…the grinders cease because they are few
The grinders are simply the teeth, so
when you teeth can no longer chew food because many of them have already been
removed.
…those that look through the windows grow
dim
These are the eyes, so when the eyes
become weak and can’t see any more.
Verse 6 …before the silver chord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or
the pitcher shattered at the fountain or the wheel broken at the well.
Here, he is talking about you very life
and he expresses the fragility of life. And King Solomon is teaching saying
that these days determine how the rest of your life will be like.
This brings me to a very important part
of this message, which I have referred to as:
THE CHOICES YOU MAKE IN THESE DAYS: THE YOUTH DAYS
I come to realize through observation
that the men God used to impact their generations; were men who looked at life
during the days of their youth and made some very critical decisions that
guided the rest of their lives and got them into their divine destiny.
PROPHET EZEKEIL
Ezekiel 4:9-14
13
Then the Lord said ‘so shall the children of
Israel eat their defiled bread among the gentiles, where I will drive them,
14 So I said, ‘Ah, Lord God! Indeed I have never
defiled myself from my youth till now;…
I moved to believe that the reason God
chose the Prophet Ezekiel was that while he was still young and energetic like
many of us here, he chose not to defile himself with anything that was unclean
and unwholesome, because he must have discovered the secret in Ecclesiastes
12:1
APOSTLE SIMON PETER
Acts 10:11-14
And saw heaven opened
and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him
and let down to the earth.
12 In it were all kinds of four footed animals of
the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air.
13 And a voice came to him, “Rise Peter; kill and
eat.’
14 But Peter said, “Not so Lord! For I have never
eaten anything common or unclean.
Before Peter ever met Jesus and quit
fishing to follow the Lord, he had already made up his mind not to indulge
himself with what is common or unclean.
JOB
Job
3: 25 for the thing I greatly feared has
come upon me and what I dreaded has happened to me.
According to the scriptures, Job was
materially blessed and the bible declares he was the greatest man in the whole
of the eastern part of the world in his days.
But despite this, Job understood before
all this greatness, that there was going to be a day, an evil day that will
come to him and he also understood that this day or these days were allotted to
every man. So even when he became great, he always remembered the evil days
that were to come, and I believe this moved him to make some critical decisions
early enough that were going to sustain him in those days of evil. And this why
in chapter 1:5 he used to offer sacrifices for himself and his children so as
he stayed clean and in good terms with God.
And here is an insight of wisdom, the
scriptures says in
Ecclesiastes 6;10,..Whatever exists has already been, and whatever is, has always been
Meaning, as the days of Job were, so are
the days today in this generation, nothing has changed about life, a man will
always have the evil days just as he also has the days of his youth.
Now the wisdom of God is telling us
today that it is the choices you make during the days of your youth that will
determine whether you will overcome the evil days.
CALEB
Joshua 14:10-11
10… So here I am today 85 years,
11 I am still strong today as the day Moses sent me,
just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out
and coming in.
At a very old age, Caleb was still as
strong as his was in the days of his youth when God assigned him a task and he
chose to do it as the Lord commanded and he did not choose how the other spies
decided to perform the work of God. He deliberately made some critical
decisions that he was going to serve God with all his heart.
MOSES (The Man of God)
HEBREWS 11:24-25
24
By faith when Moses became of age (youth),
refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter,
25 choosing rather to suffer affliction with the
people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.
No wonder God used Moses in an abnormal
way! He brought the children of Israel from slavery with an abnormal working of
miracles and wonders.
Now in Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses
was 120 years, yet his eyes were not weak, nor his strength gone.
All this was only possible because in
Hebrews 11;24 &25 explains the secret.
When Moses had grown to the youth age
where he would discern good from evil, he decided deliberately to go the path
of good.
THE GENERATION TODAY
There exist many pleasures of sin today
than there has ever been.
I would like to direct this to the young
people in this church today, Now that you are here you have strength and are
still energetic and you know what is good and evil,
What decisions are you going to make? Or
what choices are you making now?
What are you choosing; the pleasures of
this generation or pursuing a life with Jesus Christ?
The choices you make now, will determine
how you will go through the rest of the life ahead of you.
And it is in such Church meetings and
gatherings that you make such decisions, when your mind is under the influence
of the power of God.
If you make your decisions outside the
will of God, you will choose what everybody in this generation is choosing to
do and be.
Now you have to remember that God is not
going to force Himself, His will, His word nor His Spirit on you, because you
are a free moral agent, You have ability to distinguish between evil and good.
God says in Genesis 6:3
My Spirit shall not always strive with man…
God will always send His Spirit to warn you
and whisper to you which direction you should take but if you resist Him or
ignore Him, He will not persist. So it is purely your deliberate decision to
choose to go with the Lord or Not.
Finally…
Jesus taught in Matthew 7:13-14
13
Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the
gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction
14 For narrow is the gate and
difficult is the way which leads to life and there be few who find it
As you make those choices concerning the
direction and path you are taking in this life; this should be your checklist,
this scripture should always ring in your mind each time you plan to make a
critical decision.
Jesus teaches that only a few will find
this narrow path to eternal life.
So the average person, the normal person
will not find it. Meaning the normal person in this generation is on their way
to destruction.
This implies that if you choose to do
things that everybody is doing, you are on the broad path and Jesus says it is
the path that is leading to destruction.
It is a small elite group that chooses
to seek God that will find this “MYSTERY” path to eternal life.
In verses 7 and 8, Jesus says: “Ask and
you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it shall be opened. For
everyone who asks receives, everyone who seeks finds and to everyone who knocks
it shall be opened.
Now we’re are at the most important part
of the service, and the question to us is;
WHAT
IS YOUR DECISION?
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