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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 1 – Beginner)
Topic: Adolescence/Teen Years (07/16/09)
Letter to God


Dear God,

I am writing to you because I need Your help. According to my age I am called a teenager and I do not like it very much. I am fifteen years old, and it seems for ever before I’ll be called an adult!

I am not treated as a child any more, yet I am told I can’t have this and that because I am not old enough. I am growing very tall and I don’t seem to fit my clothes properly. Actually I don’t seem to fit into anything at all, whether clothes or otherwise.

My parents do not seem to understand me. They are always telling me what I must do and how I must behave. Nothing seems to please them anymore. Even if my school work is good I am told I must do better next time!

When I was small I asked Jesus into my heart and I did try to follow Him for a while. I still go to Sunday School, but it doesn’t seem to help me. Some of the lessons we have do not seem very relevant to life as I see it. I can hardly tell the guys at school about it for they would tease me and mock me. I usually go to church service with my parents, but honestly I don’t listen very much to what the preacher has to say.

My friends at school spend a lot of their time playing video games and surfing the internet. I know some of the things they do are not right, but it would be so easy to go along with them and have what they call fun! Yet I don’t really want to go that way.

I have a girlfriend. We go to the same school so I see her every day. I love her and I want to love her in the most intimate way, but I know that is wrong. My Sunday School teacher said we must not yield to temptation and that our bodies belong to the Lord Jesus, but that seems easier to say than to do!

She is always telling us that we should read the Bible every day and pray to You, but I have an awful lot of homework to do, which takes up so much time, and when I go to bed I am too tired. About all I can manage to say is the ‘Our Father’ prayer.

Some long time ago I learnt a Bible verse at Sunday School. It was “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.” It is one verse I can’t seem to forget.

Yes, I do want to trust You, but I am not doing very well at it. I don’t know how You are going to help me, but I am looking for an answer to my prayer, for in spite of what I have said I do want my life to be a Christian life.

When these teen years have gone, and for now it seems as if they will never end, I want to be the kind of grown up that will count for You and be of use in the world. I really mean this.

I believe You can make it possible. Thanks God.

Yours truly,
A teenager named John.










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diana kay
07/27/09
thnak you for this . an interesting way of taking up the theme.
BILL HUNT
07/29/09
Yes, a good reminder of how everything has to be worked out when you are a teen. But you've got the right answer in there. Trust it all to God and super blessings will come your way. Ever increasing Giant-Killing Faith!