John 14: 6.  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Everyday I set foot on my local campus I watch and observe the way students walk around with the issues of life weighing on their shoulders.  I shake my head sometimes and not in a way that makes me seem holier than the next but I wonder why the youth of "the church" follow after "the world" youth example.

These kids on campus are indeed ice skating uphill and each and everyone of them have no idea how to get to heaven.  They say they have found Jesus but Jesus was never lost, because he finds you not you find him.  He accepts you and I not we accept him because what he says goes.  Daily do they struggle and daily to they perish more and more.

Young people of the apostolic faith are set apart by more than just dress but also by standards of speech, action, and most of all spirituality.  The spirit of the Lord is what seperates the future american church leaders of today from the future leaders of the world system.  What serperates us other than standards, prayer, and the Holy Ghost?  It is the word of God itself and feeding on that word is what keeps us seperated from the grasping at the air that the world does.  Like Solomon says in Ecclesiastes, "Its all vanity, futility, and chasing after the wind and feeding on it", and Solomon ended that same book with "Fear the Lord your God, and keep his ways".  Sound words of advice from somebody who

pretty much had lost his soul by chasing after those things that're futile.

Jesus came onto the scene years later and gave his life and shed his blood on Calvary that we might have a chance to do the impossible.  He made the hill a slipperly slope to those who chose not to follow him, but unfortunately those who do want to follow him also go up that icy hill trying to get to the top and they come up short knowing they will never make it.  The way that is set is by the way of Jesus and after his sacrifice it was all down hill from there and the devil could no longer have power over those who now lived for Christ and were baptized in his name.

The question is then why do we (Youth) Ice skate uphill with them?  Our battle was already taken it was already finished when we repented and were baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of our sins and full of his Holy Ghost.  Jesus cried out on the cross, "It is finished!" that means just that as the elders say, "The old account is settled and the price has been paid".  If we read our bibles and if we speak the truth and live it with all we have praying continually in the Holy Ghost we won't any longer want to ice skate up hill but stick to the road that is straight and narrow.

Think about it if the way of the transgressor is hard then we as children of Jesus have no business being on that same road as the world is on.  Jesus is the door and he awaits all who wish to come and follow him and it begins with first stepping off the slippery hill and walking down the road of the narrow.  Lets help them (worldly youth) find the road and stop joining in on their ways and steer them to the ways of the Lord.