My Brother's Keeper

2 Kings 2:1-14

As a Christian, we are supposed to look out for one another. Keep each other in check, and to spread the good word. A great way to look out for one another is to take someone who looks up to you and put them under your wing. Show them the way to live for Christ and how they can live in this crazy and hectic world while still living for Jesus. Show them that you make mistakes and they will make mistakes and that as long as we don't keep making the same mistake it will all be okay.

Every Elijah needs an Elisha, and every Elisha needs an Elijah. As a young Christian woman, I am expected to set an example for people to look at. At the same time I am looking at people who have lived to show me what I am supposed to do. The church needs to be a place to go and look ahead at what we are to do in the future, not a place to go and be judged by those older than us.

Three years ago many of the youth were living by a life verse that we had on bracelets that we NEVER took off. Those of us that had them are now older and realizing that the verse we were living by is slowly but surely becoming less relevant to us. That verse was 1 Timothy 4:12, "Let no one despise or think less of you because of your youth, but be an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity." Now, we pass that verse down to the even younger generation that looks up to us.

I hope that we all can take up our mantle's and be that guiding light, God meant for us to be. Leave the petty things behind, leave the opinions of others in the dust, and to be that Elijah for the Elisha generation.