Your Awesome Destiny
When you became a teenager it marked an important moment in your life. It is true that the young person is not yet fully adult. But the body has completed the greater part of its growth. With this physical growth the young person becomes increasingly able to determine his own life. As you become more mature, you must increasingly follow the laws and meet the duties of life.
Until now you have been a child. If you misbehaved, you did not have to bear the responsibility. Your father or mother would take care of the problem and forgive you. Now you will increasingly encounter people who will not forgive your bad behavior as your mother and father did. They will hold you responsible. If you have been well-behaved and did whatever your father and mother told you to do, you must realize that you will increasingly encounter situations in which your father and mother will no longer be able to help you. You will have to make your own decisions. Greater demands will be placed on you young men and women. How well you meet these demands will determine the remainder of your life. If you obey the laws of life you will succeed, and you will become useful men and diligent women. If you fail to meet life’s demands, you will face a shipwreck.
You must decide here between the good and the bad. Life is uncertain. Hard fate may strike some of you, perhaps even destroy you. We are defenseless against such blows of fate, but they are rare. In most cases where life does not go well, it is a matter of personal failure. Each person has his good and bad aspects. It is our will that determines whether the good or the bad wins.
What is good, and what is bad?
We say that the bad is harmful, the good useful. Never make the mistake of asking what is good for you. Only that is good which is gained through honest means and serves the people.
The life before you is not a matter of good or bad behavior, or parental punishment, or cowardly behavior to avoid parental punishment, but rather it is a matter of proving yourself as a man or a woman. You will not have this strength if you do not have a living faith in God during your entire life. But it must be a faith that leads you to serve God through deeds, not words. It must be a faith that makes you consider yourself God’s tool, called through your work, your struggle, your creation of new life, to serve the eternal maintenance of order, justice, and life itself in this world. You must never feel yourself a servant or slave of God, but rather a fighter for God.
The creative strength in our hands with which we work, the creative strength in our minds, with which we learn and seek and research, the strength in our hearts and souls, with which we believe, the strengths with which we create new life, these are the weapons God has given humanity. We would be fools if we did not use these weapons to work, fight, create order, and maintain life, but rather served life ill because we were lazy, cowardly, disloyal, immoral. We would then be truly pitiable creatures before God!
You must know that you may have a great responsibility also in the coming years to educate and lead other young people. Fulfill that responsibility as well as you have fulfilled those in the past.
Young men and women …
You must use all your strength. You will become a hard, loyal, industrious and successful generation. We will not need to be ashamed of you before the past or the future generations of our people. This is the proud hope we have for you. But we must also give this warning: If you do not stand together, but become disunited, if you are not loyal, but disloyal, if you do not work and are cowardly, you will fall into terrible chaos and our nations will further collapse.
We can look around us today and see that much of what is called good by the world is actually evil according to God and all that is good is called evil by the world. When you study, and work to become a better person for your self, your future family, your race, nation, and God you may be thought of as unusual and different by the vast majority of young people out there today. But the Bible says the path to righteousness and narrow and few find the way.
When you see movies, listen to music, watch news programs, or read articles in magazines that talk about how cool it is to be friends with gays or to hang out in multi-racial groups – you will know that they are attempting to lead you away from the truth path. So much of our future as a people depends on you and other young people.
Listen to those adults in The Knights who have years of experience in this struggle. Admire those who have belonged for many years and have never given up. Strive to be an influence among your friends one day and certainly over your own family and children that you will have.
As other young people work in their own way – in their own cities and towns – know that you are not alone. While there may not be millions – there will be many more who find the right path. It is the destiny God wants for you.