This page is for our youth. Some time ago I attended a pilgrimage in Boston and was asked by a Spiritual Mother who attended the pilgrimage to cater a page especially for our youth. So beginning today this page is published, “Especially for the Youth” and would say just that.

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 Our first issue in ‘Especially for the Youth’ we would like to focus on principles to live by.  King David has been credited for writing most of the Psalms in the Bible which we all solemnly believe are deeply inspired words to the Almighty.  All Christian folks (regardless of their denomination) at some point of time resort to the assurances of these Psalms. Therefore one can safely say that King David had a clear channel unto the Almighty.

Like any good parent, King David wanted the best for his son Solomon. King David was already convinced that there was a direct pathway set to communicating with the Almighty. He was committed to passing on the knowledge of this pathway on to him son Solomon.

According to 1 Chronicles 28: 9, 10, King David said to his son Solomon:

 “And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

            Take heed now; for the Lord hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.”

The Bible also tells us that Solomon later became King. He is heralded to be the wisest man that has ever lived.

Therefore it would be prudent to say that Solomon benefited from the principles his father David gave unto him.

These principles were:

1. Get to Know God Personally.
2. Learn God’s commands and discover what he wants you to do.
3. Worship God with wholehearted devotion.
4. Serve God with a willing mind.
5. Always be faithful to God.
6. Never become discouraged.

Regarding principle #2, in today’s society many individuals claim to be children of God and don’t know the commandments of God. Please note that commandments are rules and God’s rules of yesterday still apply to today. Therefore I urge you not only to read but also learn the commandments which were handed to Moses to give to God’s people.

Learn and Understand

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make  unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord they God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord they God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Six days  shalt thou labor and do all thy work: But the seventh day  is the Sabbath of the Lord thy god: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou , nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within  thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
5. Honor they father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy god giveth thee.
6. Thou shalt not kill
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor’s.

 Verse to Meditate on: 2 Kings: 22, 1-2.

“Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left hand.”