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"Creating a Good Pattern in Your Youth Days"


BILL GAITHER TELLS THE STORY OF HOW HE AND HIS WIFE GLORIA WERE ABLE TO PURCHASE A PIECE OF LAND THEY DESIRED IN INDIANA SHORTLY AFTER THEY WERE MARRIED. THEY WERE TEACHING SCHOOL IN HIS HOME TOWN OF ALEXANDRIA, INDIANA AND THEY WANTED A PIECE OF LAND TO BUILD A HOUSE ON. THEY NOTICED A PARCEL OF LAND SOUTH OF TOWN WHERE CATTLE GRAZED, AND HE LEARNED IT BELONGED TO A 92 YEAR RETIRED BANKER NAMED MR. YULE. HE OWNED A LOT OF LAND IN THE AREA AND THE WORD WAS OUT THAT HE WOULD SELL NONE OF IT TO ANYONE. THE 92 YEAR OLD BANKER ALWAYS GAVE THE SAME ANWER TO ANYONE WHO ASKED ABOUT BUYING LAND, “I PROMISED TO LET FARMERS USE IT FOR THEIR CATTLE, CAN’T SELL IT.” GLORIA AND HE WENT TO THE BANK WHERE HE STILL WENT IN FOR A FEW HOURS A DAY TO WORK AND REQUESTED HIM TO CONSIDER SELLING SOME LAND TO THEM. THE OLD MAN LOOKED OVER HIS BIFOCALS AT BILL GAITHER AND SAID STRAIGHTFORWARDLY, “AIN’T SELLING!” BILL GAITHER RESPONDED, “I KNOW, BUT WE TEACH SCHOOL HERE AND THOUGHT MAYBE YOU’D BE INTERESTED IN SELLING TO SOMEONE PLANNING TO SETTLE IN THE AREA.” THE OLD MAN CURIOUSLY ASKED, “WHAT DID YOU SAY YOUR NAME WAS YOUNG MAN?” BILL REPLIED, “GAITHER, BILL GAITHER SIR. THE OLD MAN SAID, “HMMM, ANY RELATION TO GROVER GAITHER”’ “YES SIR” SAID BILL, “THAT WAS MY GRANDFATHER.” MR. YULE THEN PUT DOWN HIS PAPER AND REMOVED HIS GLASSES AND SAID, “THAT’S INTERESTING, GROVER GAITHER WAS THE BEST WORKER I EVER HAD ON MY FARM, FULL DAY’S WORK FOR A DAY’S PAY, AND SO HONEST. WHAT’D YOU SAY YOU WANTED YOUNG MAN?” BILL GAITHER AGAIN ASKED ABOUT THE LAND AND THE OLD MAN SAID FOR HIM TO COME BACK A COUPLE DAYS LATER, HE WOULD THINK ABOUT IT. A WEEK LATER HE WENT BACK AND THE OLD MAN SAID OK -- AND ONLY $3,800 FOR 15 ACRES! IT WAS WORTH MORE THAN 3 TIMES THAT. THE GOOD NAME OF HIS GRANDDAD HAD WON HIM THAT LAND! A WONDERFUL PATTERN HAD BEEN SET IN HIS FAMILY BY AN EARLY RELATIVE THAT PAID DIVIDENDS GENERATIONS LATER! – SOURCE UNKNOWN

“REMEMBER YOUR CREATOR IN THE DAYS OF YOUR YOUTH!”
Ecclesiastes 12:1-8, 13

We have only one chance to be young, how critical for youth to recognize the importance of knowing God at this stage of their life, they will later look back and thank God for the knowledge of the Lord when young!
Remembering God while young will also help you fight against the temptations of youth and thus avoid consequences that can last a lifetime.
Many young people ruin their lives or complicate them later by ignoring God’s laws when young!

May this passage encourage you to deepen your walk with your Creator.... ;-)