All Articles For A Word to Covenant Youth (1962)

“God will bring thee into judgment.” Thus Solomon wrote to his son and through him to all our covenant youth. Our young people as they grow up like to be considered the equal of father and mother. And physically and intellectually they often are. But for that reason our young people ought to consider also that even as God shall bring all adults into judgment, so He most assuredly shall also bring them into judgment. It is not a question of hurting the feelings of your parents. It is not a question of invoking their wrath for a time. You...

Youth is the time of strength. But youth is also the time of increasing independence. When a young man or woman reaches the period of full physical and mental development, he or she arrives at the moment of physical independence from father and mother. Such a youth is ready and able to support himself financially. He can get a job and often bring down a bigger pay check than his father is at the moment receiving. With broader education and specialization in a particular field he may become completely independent of financial help of his father. In fact his parents...

Let our covenant youth remember that God is interested in them. Very frequently God speaks directly and personally to you, Covenant Youth. He does that in His law when, in the fifth commandment, He declares, “Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord Thy God giveth thee.” Certainly this is addressed directly and personally to children and to youth. It has, this commandment, its implications and demands also of the parents. But surely in its very form it is spoken to youth. Paul writes in Ephesians 6:1, “Children, obey your parents...