Learn to make God your point of reference as early as possible. Dr. Tony Evans says at the end of the day, nothing matters more than where you stand with the Lord.

Fear God, keep His commandments because this applies to every person.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Life has a way of lifting us up one moment and letting us down the next. Well, today, Dr. Evans

explores the tension of joy and frustration living side by side and why those ups and downs

can leave us searching for something more.

Let's join him as he sums up the wisdom of Solomon and Ecclesiastes,

showing us how to move from temporary satisfaction to lasting purpose.

He comes to chapter 12, he says, remember also your creator in the days of your youth.

This is something that you parents who have teenagers would do well to go over with them

this chapter because he says, start off with God while you're young.

Make him your point of reference as early in life as possible. Now, youth can be relative

because you really don't know how old you are until you know when you're going to die, but nobody

knows when they're going to die, so we don't know who the old people are. But he says, I want you to

remember. Now, remember doesn't just mean to remember in the sense of thinking about or recalling.

When he's saying remember your creator in the days of your youth,

he is saying, learn to make God your point of reference as early as possible.

Many of you, when you were in college, even if you went left, you couldn't break away

from Mama's God because they had, they raised you in church and they kind of got that thing

stuck in your head. You want to drive at home. It may not look like it's registering now,

but you want to create a God consciousness as early as possible, even if as early as possible, is today.

Remember your creator in the days of your, before the evil days come and the years draw near when you will say, I have no delight in them.

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