Remember -Now- Thy Creator...

"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;" (Eccl 12:1)

I heard Pastor Kenny Grant preach on this subject. The entire chapter, actually. He broke it down wonderfully and showed all of us (at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Swatara, PA where Pastor Michael J Golden presides. My Uncle) something that we hadn't really seen or realized in that passage, before. Lately, I've been reading that passage quite a bit. I try to make reading my Bible the first, or -one- of the first, things that I do in the mornings. It -really- helps. True story. Anyway...what I've been seeing in it recently goes beyond "Don't wait until you're old to see out God". Allow me to share with you what it's begun to mean to -me-...

It says "remember", not "find" (Rev 2:30). Like Talib Kweli said "What do you mean, 'you back'? I ain't never went nowhere. Where -you- been, n*gga? -You- back! Apologize!!" Straight up, God never went anywhere. He's been waiting for you to acknowledge Him. And, when you push Him out of your life and walk away, He's shadowing you just waiting for you to acknowledge Him again. To look back at your life and wonder where you left Him (where it all began to go wrong). So...He never went away. -You- walked away from -Him- and He's just been waiting for you to turn around and acknowledge Him for a grip. Anyway..."Remember -now- thy Creator"

"In the days of thy youth" Before it's too late. Now...that doesn't necessarily -just- mean before you're too old. It can mean other things, too. The days of you youth, depending on how you look at the technical meaning of it, can be used to mean "soon". As in "now, as opposed to later". It seems like a small difference between old and young and now instead of later, but it's not. Let me go to the next point and I'll tie it in so that it makes sense.

"while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;" ok...now we get to the crux of the matter. This isn't always when you're an old and gray man/woman. Christopher Titus (comedian) said in "Love is Evol" that "if you've never contemplated suicide, you've never been in love". My point in that is the "evil days" and "the years...when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them" doesn't have to be when you're old. It can be so simple as when you're miserable outside of the Will of God. Especially in a relationship that you were never supposed to be in, that God is not in. It can simply read that you should seek God -now- before you regret it later. Or before you're in a bad way and miserable with your life. Think about how many miserable Christians you've seen. Now...think about how much it makes -you- want what they have. You don't. No one -wants- to be miserable. So...
Remember God -before- you're miserable. Seek His face -before- you regret it. Hindsight is 20/20, but the regret of memories -really- sucks.

"The older I get, the more I value the ability to learn without experiencing."
That's a quote from me. A'salaam Alaikum. Shalom Aleikum. Vaya Con Dios, and may the grace of God be upon you. Btw, grace is getting the good things that you -don't- deserve. So...may God grant you many good things that you do not deserve.