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Start Living Young
by
Commissioner Wesley Harris
IT must be
a shock to come to dying only to discover that one has never
really lived! I am
now way beyond three score years and ten and determined to live
until I die, but I am glad that I really started living when I
was young. I could
easily have wasted my years on material pursuits and finished
up with nothing to show but money and what it could buy.
As it was, when I was still in my teens I decided to
‘lay up treasure in Heaven’ and have found spiritual treasures
on earth as well.
Of course, I am far from
perfect but I have long been forgiven and now I have no
serious regrets about the years which have passed – which is
more than some of my wealthy friends could say, for all their
bulging bank balances! It is as we learn to give that we learn
to live and we are never too young to learn that.
As a
teenager I fancied a career in journalism then in a youth
council session a very simple question hit me like a bolt from
the blue. When an appeal for candidates was made some one
asked, “That about you, Wesley?” and I realized that a
vocation is more than a job.
For me, this meant becoming a Salvation Army officer.
It was no short-lived spasm of youthful enthusiasm. Very
quickly I became a candidate helper running a small corps
while still doing part-time studies along
the way - and sixty five years later I still relish
opportunities for ministry.
In
Ecclesiasties 12.1 it says “Remember your Creator in the days
of your youth”. I am so
glad I did just that, and would ask some reader, “What about
you?”
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