The Time of Youth

The time of youth is the choicest and fittest time for service. Now your parts are lively, senses fresh, memory strong, and nature vigorous. The days of your youth are the spring and morning of your time, they are the first-born of your strength; therefore God requires your nonage as well as your dotage, the wine of your times as well as the lees, as you may see typified to you in the first-fruits, which were dedicated to the Lord, and the first-born

The time of youth is the time of salvation; it is the acceptable time, it is thy summer, thy harvest-time. O young man I therefore do not sleep, but awaken thy heart, rouse up thy soul, and improve all thou hast; put out thy reason, thy strength, thy all, to the treasuring up of heavenly graces, precious promises, divine experiences, and spiritual comforts against the winter of old age; and then old age will not be to thee an evil age, but as it was to Abraham, a good old age (Gen. xxv. 28). Do not put off God with fair promises and large pretences, till your last sands are running, and the days of dotage have overtaken you. — Brooks