Key Verse: Verse 12 - “Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”
Key Words: be thou an example of the believers
More than fifty years ago at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, a young sociology professor assigned his class to a city slum to interview two hundred boys. “On the basis of your findings, predict their future,” he said.
Shocked at what they found in the slums, the students estimated that ninety percent of the boys interviewed would someday serve time in prison.
Twenty-five years passed. The same professor asked another class to try to locate the survivors of the two hundred boys and compare what had happened. Of one hundred eighty of the original boys located, only four had ever been to jail.
Why did the predictions not turned out? A common denominator was sought in their lives, some value or influence that may have marked the difference. Through more interviews, it was found that over one hundred of the men remembered having the same high school teacher, a Miss O’Rourke, who had been a tremendous influence on them at the time. After a long search, Sheila O’Rourke was found in a nursing home in Memphis, now seventy years old. When asked for her explanation, she was puzzled. “All I can say,” she concluded, “is that I loved every one of them.”
I can’t quit because someone is watching, and they will pattern their life after me.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞Don’t quit – be faithful.
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