June 11th, 2021: Walk Alongside Someone
Someone I know shared with me about how he began to dream about having his own trucking business. It started with a visit from an uncle when he was about 6 or 7. His uncle showed him pictures of his own trucking business. That was the beginning of his dream. It is incredible to see how a simple interaction we have with someone we trust can begin something amazingly wonderful in our life.
Jesus called the early disciples to follow him and became fishers of men. That was the beginning of the Christian Church. Lydia and the women who came to pray together changed their plan drastically after their meeting with Paul. That was how the Church in Philippi started.
I got a call from someone yesterday who would like to share her desire to be a chaplain for seniors with me. She got the sense of being called when she went up North in Alberta to care for her father, who had suffered from a severe heart attack. She received the revelation during the time she spent in the hospital. She just wanted to share with me her thoughts and listened to mine.
So how would our responses?
Be a mentor to young people in high school who are searching for their places in the future. Be there and listen.
Be an encourager to a young businessman (woman) if you are a successful and seasoned entrepreneur. Take them alongside and show them the robe to meaningful success.
Be a coach to a community sports team so that you have the opportunity to teach and influence young players about discipline, commitment, and excellence.
There are a lot more. I am privileged to know men and women who are these examples. Young people need godly mentors and true heroes in their lives. Don't leave them alone so that they can be misguided by the "celebrities" of our time.
1 Peter 5: 1-5
"So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
