ASI 2012: It's Time... To Be About Our Father's Business

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ASI 2012 Youth Meetings

Doug Batchelor

ASI 2012 Youth Meeting

Kameron DeVasher

Dwayne Lemon

Ted N.C. Wilson

Lance A. Wilbur

Can somebody, by the way, give me a synonym?

First of all, can you tell me what a synonym means?

Yes, has a similar meaning, the same meaning.

Basically, the Apostle Paul is saying don't let anyone hate your youth not you in particular but your youth the youth that you carry with you that's the essence of the text with that being said let me share some thoughts with you.

I am now, within the last couple of years, I've come into a new phase in my life.

I have, along with my wife, I didn't do it all by myself, but we have this wonderful, beautiful, healthy baby boy who's just learning to say words and every day he's got about 1 or 2 brand new words for us.

1 of his favorite words is no, but we're trying to get other words out of him.

And he's becoming, there's a transition from a little baby that's just kind of a glob of skin and fat and cute to he's starting to stretch out and elongate and become you can see facial features of an individual because all babies kind of look alike but now he's starting to look like our Henry you know where before he was just a baby, you know, but now he's Henry.

And he's starting to, but there are certain things he cannot do for himself yet.

In fact, there's most things in life he cannot do for, we have to drive him everywhere.

In fact, when he was a baby, we had to prop him up to sit.

Now he can walk on his own, he can sit on his own, he can sometimes talk a little bit on his own.

But 1 thing in particular that hit me this week that he cannot do for himself is care for his hair.

It's up to his mother and I to cut his hair appropriately.

Now, when I was his age, my parents loved my beautiful, I had bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright blonde hair.

And they shuddered at the thought of ever cutting it, ever.

Finally, my hair was growing down past my shoulders and I was pretty like a lady, you know, it was nice.

But I had this blonde long hair and it was, and finally the time came and they realized we have to cut the boy's hair because I wasn't doing it myself, right, because I'm a little baby.

And so they went and cut it and basically the haircut that I got was kind of like a bowl on my head, you know, and it was pretty weird.

And there was a long time in my life where I could not do anything about my hair.

I mean, I guess I could have just picked up the scissor and got it.

Never dawned on me that I had control over my own head.

What I looked like, the impression that I made on the world, which by the way, when my hair was long and blonde, the impression I made on a lot of the world was that, what a cute little girl, right?

There was a time when people looked at me and thought I was something different than what I was.

And I had no control over it, you know, until, and then they gave me the bowl haircut and people thought other things about me.

But finally there came a time in my life which I'm so glad my son has not come to yet, but I'm praying for the Lord's patience and mercy whenever he does get to this phase when he can choose for himself the haircut.

He can choose for himself the reading material.

He can have an independence from his parents that can, he can choose what to do with his own head.

Which for us, of course, at this age, of course you can choose what to do with your own head.

But that's a brand new idea that my son does not have yet.

And I want him to come into that really slowly.

But as I grew up, there came a time, somewhere in elementary school, somewhere around there, that I started choosing how I was going to cut my own hair.

And I started choosing not only that, but I started choosing who I would hang out with, and what kind of words I would listen to, and what kind of words would come out of me.

And what kind of music would go into me, and what kind of thing, and I started to choose who I was.

Now, this seems like a very, very novel thing, but there were some, I did some experimentation.

I didn't know what I wanted to be yet, and so I kind of experimented with some looks.

For instance, there was a time when I wanted to be a skateboarder.

You're already laughing, some of you are chuckling, some of you...

Did you know that there's a certain haircut that sometimes goes with skateboarders?

A lot of people, long, kind of shaggy, kind of hangs in your face, you have to do this a lot, you know, and you can barely see, you know, there's a kind of a look to it.

Some people are smiling because they know someone, they are someone, or they can see someone, and we're not, whatever.

Whenever I, as soon as I say skateboarding, you had a picture in your head of a haircut, didn't you?

Honestly, I look back at the pictures now and I don't know what I was thinking.

There was a time when I cut all the hair on 1 side off kind of and all the other side was long and I really, that was just, Apparently I was aiming to be a mistake.

There was a time when I wanted to be a rock star, and I dyed my hair blonde.

But All of these things, I was trying to figure out which thing I wanted to be like, which group I wanted to aim toward.

And that not only affects, of course, your hair, it affects your clothing, it affects your music, it affects everything about you.

You choose, I'm going to set my course that way and I'm going to mold myself into that image.

There's a kind of a look, there's a kind of a personality, there's a kind of character you might say, that you're aiming for to develop.

Now, a fun thing that I like to do with some students sometimes, and I think we have the time to do it today.

What I'm going to do here is on the board, for those of you listening to AudioVerse, you're really missing out right now because this is going to be visual, okay?

I'm going to take this pen and I'm going to draw very artistically the best that I can.

But what I need now is, well I'm going to say something and, alright, How should we do this exactly the best I need a volunteer?

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