Remember the Days of My Youth

[S] Ezekiel 16:22,43,60 --
 ²²"Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.
 ⁴³"Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head," declares the Lord GOD, "so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.
 ⁶⁰"Nevertheless, I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

[O] As an adult when I see some teenagers I feel like saying, "You think you know everything, don't you?" because they sure act that way.  They don't realize just a couple of years ago (if that) they were pretty much depended on their parents or other adults around them for making decisions and simply learning everything from them.  It's almost funny to watch them transform into a quite different perspective.  As I was reflecting on this passage I felt like God must be saying the same to me because it wasn't too long ago when I really didn't know much about God or His heart and after picking up a few concepts here and there from different parts of the Bible, all of a sudden I feel like I know it all!  God has taken care of me in my youth and has led me to encounter Him and to mature spiritually and as a whole person.  But this is still an on-going process where I must remain in my humble attitude, complete surrender to His leadership.  I must not boast or be proud thinking I know it all or even worse, know it more than God Himself.

[A] Stay on my knees and be humble.  Never even think about knowing enough about God because He is much greater than what my brain can hold and so I must continue to humbly learn from Him.  Because how I was trained by the society and secular education, at times I mistakenly think that older by age or by experience is always better.  So if someone had been going to church for a longer time then that person must be spiritually more mature.  This is not the case all the time.  So I must stay humble even if I may be "older" than others because God may use the "younger" Brothers/Sisters to teach me about His wondrous power, love and grace.

[P] Dear God, I surrender my pride to You in exchange for deepening my trust in You to tackle many obstacles on my way through Your ways and strengths.  I ask you in Your name humbly.  Amen.