Young Men

We are apt to connect conspicuous faith with age and experience. But Scripture abounds with examples of extraordinary faith in young men. David wrote the majority of his Psalms before he attained the age of thirty. Daniel and his pious companions were still in their youth when they made their stand for God. Elihu gave utterance to more sound wisdom than Job's more venerable friends, and of Timothy Paul was able to say, "I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.... Ye know the proof of him." Phil. 2:19-23.
We would, therefore, encourage our younger brethren to exercise themselves spiritually about the condition of things around them, and also concerning the deep, deep need. They may then be prepared to say with Isaiah, "Here am I; send me." Isa. 6:8. The only person expressly called a "man of God" in the New Testament was the comparatively youthful Timothy (1 Tim. 6:11). Yet he was a timid, sensitive person, not unlike Jeremiah in an earlier day. But grace knows how to strengthen and make bold the one whose heart is right towards God, and who yearns to be used of Him. Jonathan and his armor-bearer set out that day with very little deliberation.