Growing Up: Teenage Life

Just when you think you know something for sure, you realize you don't know everything at all. You hit the ceiling of your high, and your confidence turns back into porridge, sloshing around in the core of your body again. Teenage life -- How badly do we want to rest our sureness in something we have newly learned? Like driving a new car, a new experience that eventually turns numb with time, we want to be considered an expert already. You usually think you are when you think you have adopted an array of new driving skills. However, the constraint of time and experience has a way of revealing our inner pride, one we might have mistook for confidence.

We do not know who we are yet -- we only know a little bit. Although we know how ugly we once was, or are, we have yet to see beauty flourish. Will I ever be satisfied? No, not for a sustained time. Will I ever settle down? No, though physically we may live in a house for a short time, we will never be at home until we go to Heaven.

The teenage life is difficult, because we are constantly looking for answers. We realize, though, that not every question will have an answer. We have to deal with these uncertainties that seem to shadow parts of our life, if not loom over it altogether. Yet, you identify yourself to be a Christian. You know that shadows imply that something is blocking the light from the outside -- the light source must surround you in order for a shadow to be cast on your body, or your perception of life. It's hard to find your way in the dark. However, as followers of Christ, the light source is from within. We are the light of the light of the world -- Jesus is our lamp. That lamp is untouchable. We may feel suffocating under the weight of the unknown, but light penetrates darkness and we can breathe on our own.

The amazing cross, on which Christ died for all, covers every generation before and after the current one we are in. The power of the cross is marvelous. It overcomes all darkness: that no trace of the night is ever too dark for God -- that any star in the sky can never math His purity.