The Christian Youth: Where are you, God asks

03 May, 2015 - 00:05 0 Views

The Sunday Mail

Pastor Tinashe Zinyemba

LAST week we dealt a little bit on identity and discovering who you are.

Due to time and space constraints we couldn’t say much hence I sensed a need to pick up on the same topic. Something interesting happens in Genesis 3vs9.

God asks Adam, “ . . . Where art thou?”

Now, we all know that God knows everything and that He is everywhere. Why would He be asking Adam where he was when He obviously knew? I believe that God is asking many youths and young adults that very same question even today.

Did you know that from a scientific/biological perspective you are very unique? There is no one out there like you. For instance your DNA is unique only to you, your finger print is unique only to you, and your retina (eye) has a unique imprint specific only to you. I read an article somewhere that the print on your tongue is unique as well hey.

Having said this, however, it is important for us to have some form of standards and references. For instance we should have a grading system for exams and a specific measurement system for time, weather, distance and so forth.

We should be able to benchmark our lives against something in order to track our progress and to enable us to aspire for greater achievements and goals.

That’s why there are specific systems in place to act as guides, motivators and warnings on this journey called life.

Sometimes these systems are actually people that we have in our circles, I heard someone say that life is too short to make all the mistakes by yourself, hence we must learn from others’ mistakes and successes and apply those lessons to our lives.

I believe that we are alive by design and not by chance or mistake and that we are to fulfil our assignment in this life. I equate this to Adam in the Garden of Eden after having been given an assignment by God to tend to the garden.

Every evening God would come down and meet with Adam while he was fulfilling his destiny. He had a unique purpose/destiny/assignment/identity that distinguished him from everything else in the garden.

However, the day that he left his position and did what he was not supposed to do God asked him where he was. Not that God didn’t know his location but that rather God didn’t identify with what Adam had become as a result of his actions.

The events that occur from that point onwards I am sure you are familiar with. That is he is thrown out of the garden and is literally condemned to a life of hard labour (sweat, depression, sorrow, uncertainty, failure, fear, pain and so forth). Maybe you are in this situation.

I believe God is asking many of us, “Where are you?”

Maybe because we got ourselves in to issues that had nothing to do with us at all. I don’t have to list what can cause you to feel like a slave to your life or situation I am pretty sure you can fill in the blanks.

The purpose of this article is to let you know that if you have lost your way or feel like you are on a road that is leading to despair, the reason why God is asking “where are you?” is because He wants you back in the place of destiny and assignment He prepared for you.

The story of Adam does not end with Him but God sends Jesus to reset the system and give us all another chance to be realigned to God. Some of you are now preparing to go back to school while for others the future looks bleak.

Start today, if you refocus and put your energy in the right areas I believe you will not fail this term.

Start today to live as you know deep in your heart God wants for you. Get out of that relationship, stop hanging around those people, stop reading those books or going to those places.

Start living right from today onwards and with God’s help you will rediscover who you are and fulfil your assignment. I believe in you and believe God has called you for a greater purpose. Till next time God bless.

The writer is a pastor with New Life Covenant Church. Email feedback at [email protected]

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