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We are reminded in the last chapter of Ecclesiastes which is a book written as we know by King Solomon. It was a very important book to the children of Israel, for it was put into a scroll and every year at the Festival of Tabernacles that book, particularly that last chapter would be read by the priests day in and day out, so that all the people could hear this final message as they left that place, a message that reminded them of the frailty of life and the necessity to depend on God’s blessings through this life, because at the end of it as they wrote there the body will go to dust, but the spirit returns unto God. It was important that they be reminded to have their faith in God and trust in Him absolutely, particularly in His commandments.
We today live in the period of grace and we have a greater hope than those people in those days. We have the blessings of grace where we can become reconciled unto God, but that reconciliation will be meaningless if we depart from the commandments of God without understanding that the end result is still the same. We do not get judged as we go through life as they did, but there will be a day of judgment when the Lord returns, when He will separate the sheep from the goats, and we need to prepare for that. The very first words are very important for us today when we see what is happening in the world and we view statistics. The message was – Remember thy Creator in thy youth. It did not say to remember God as the Creator of the world and everything therein. Specifically it reminded the people to remember their Creator, the creation of man and out of man woman, this remembrance that this must always be the foundation or the beginning of following our faith. If we cannot accept that God has created us, then all the rest can easily be argued against. It specifically left its message to the youth, that they should at all times remember their Creator in their youth, for after that will come times of distress and darkness, and times of evil within the world. We see that happening in the world today. We see a move to have them forget their Creator, to look to other philosophies on how they came about and more importantly to look to what their rights are, and that can be without referring back to their Creator. Statistically, this sadly shows that young people who enter university studies, that many of them as they register for university studies believe in the Creator and they believe in Christian morals. Sadly out of those ones who exit from university the percentage has dropped. They are taught that they have to forget this business of a Creator, that they have to forget this business of obeying God’s commandments, that they are now of the age where they can make their own mind up. Many claim to be agnostic or even atheist. The link is that they have forgotten the Creator from the days of their youth. At a Youth Camp we saw a video presentation of a doctor who is now going around the world, and he is teaching and talking at universities to urge them to not forget the Creator in their lives. He relates his own story. He was brought up in a Christian family, he went to the university believing all this, but within three years he did not believe in God as the Creator anymore because of the influences. He became a doctor and he was travelling out to see a patient and was involved in a horrific motor vehicle accident that left him in the hospital for over two years. All the parts of his body had to be re-built. They were giving him these bone transplants, and after many of them he said to the surgeon – “Why are you always opening me up and taking the bones from my ribs?, it’s becoming quite sore.” They told him it is the only bone in your body that will re-grow under its own efforts. He was lying in bed thinking – I have heard that before. His mind was taken back to when he was a young person and he learnt of the Scriptures, and he learnt of the creation – the Book of Genesis, where he remembered that God opened man, took a bone from the rib and closed it, and it re-grew again, and out of that He cloned a woman. Because he had that seed implanted to remember his Creator in his youth, he then suddenly realized the truth, and he made a commitment from that time, that if God spared him and got him back into mobility again he would commit his life to warn young people to never forget their Creator that they learnt of in their youth. We see therein the necessity particularly for parents, grandparents and the church to plant deeply into the hearts of our children and young people this wonderful doctrine that we find in the Book of Genesis of the creation of the world, but most importantly the creation of mankind, made from the dust of the earth with the breath of God placed in and man became a living soul. Hebrews 11:3 “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of thing’s which do appear.”