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By Elisabeth Hinze
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\nThey say that youth is wasted on the young. And I used to agree. Oh, make no mistake about it. I\u2019m still a long ways from retirement. Technically, I hover at the extreme end of the age group that those in the know classify as \u201cthe youth\u201d. But that\u2019s a technicality. Because youth, to me, falls somewhere at the end of your teens and the beginning of your twenties. It\u2019s the years of smooth skin, boundless energy and consequence-less junk food eating. It\u2019s also those years that I spent doing, well, everything that a Believer shouldn\u2019t. Some people call it writing your testimony. I like that. What I like even more is God\u2019s promise to restore the years that the locust have eaten (Joel 2:25). And being a faithful God, He did just that. <\/p>\n

However, deep down, a tiny part of me clung to the belief that, well, youth is truly wasted on the young. Think about it. All that energy, all those lovely opportunities and all the time on your hands to go for those lovely opportunities. All the countless advantages of youth. Only to be rendered virtually useless by the insecurity, desperation and mistaken belief of infinite wisdom that also comes with youth. See, it just doesn\u2019t add up. All the niceness of youth should come at a time when you are wise enough, mature enough, close enough to God, to appreciate it. <\/p>\n

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