How many times in your day-to-day life have you asked yourself what decisions to make when faced with a situation? Which choice to make when faced with two paths?

These days, it doesn’t seem to matter anymore, making the right choice, following the right path, is no fun now, “It’s best to follow what does me good, what makes me happy, what satisfies me and brings advantages, even if they are temporary”. And it is in this thinking that many forget the one who makes life meaningful and purposeful, JESUS.

Days go by, ideologies are created, idols are raised up, and young people who at one point always stood firm in the TRUTH, over time drift away from God, from the church, seeking another focus, opportunities, think and say: ‘God will understand if I miss a day or two, if I don’t follow him anymore’, ‘my choice seems the right one’, ‘it’s my future, and I have to think about it’.

And the question arises: Who is on the throne of your heart? Youth, know this: “YOU WILL ONLY KNOW YOU HAVE IDOLS IN YOUR LIFE/HEART when JESUS asks you to give up something or someone you love so much.

1 JOHN 5:20-21

20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true: and in him that is true we are, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols!

From the moment we become Christians, followers of Christ, we decide to live no longer for ourselves, we make him the driver on the road of our lives, our compass, our guide. 

Realise that your choices will condition the course of your life, whatever the criteria, but that the instructions God gives you, the purpose he has placed in you, does not condition your future at all. 

When you put Jesus on the throne of your life, the way he directs your life at any given moment will be in line with the call, the will of God and the purpose he has given you.

So, Kuriakos youth, ask yourself every day: Do I have something in my heart that is more important than my relationship with God? And if so, ask God for help so that with him you can tear down this idol, and you can follow him and fulfil what he has entrusted to you. 

ISAIAH 2:17-18 

17 And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the loftiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. 

18 And all the idols will completely disappear.

Make GOD THE ONE SITTING ON THE THRONE OF YOUR HEART”