"Life is like a vapor, don't waste a day"

A very common phrase I have said many times and have heard from many friends is "I am still young I will wait till I get older". Growing up it was very common for my mindset to say hey I still have a lot of life in front of me I might as well have fun right now and I will get right with God when I get older and it is more convenient.  In James 4 verse 14 it states "Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor is here for a little while and then vanishes away". I do not know what tomorrow holds for me. This summer my sister and her friends were boating on a local lake and when they went to take the boat out they saw a family in distress. Their 7 year old daughter had gone in the water and they hadn't seen her for about twenty minutes. So the guys with her had to walk to search the bottom of the lake for her. They found her, but the ambulance was unable to resuscitate her. She was seven years old and gone from this world. That terrible event was an eye opener for me. We never know how many days we have left so don't waste one day. 1 Timothy 4:12 says "Don't let anyone look down on you because your are, but set an example for the believers in life, in love, in faith and purity". When it says don't let anyone, that literally means anyone, friends, parents, teachers, and yourself. Don't look down on yourself because you are young. Don't be like me and say hey I will wait till I get older. I wasted my high school years simply because I believed the lie, I could wait till later and I used my age as a crutch. I am very sad to say that it happened and I wasted parts of my life, but with Gods grace I able to live a new and redeemed life where I will do my best to never waste a day. So what if you are 12, today is the best day to pursue God and to have a relationship with Him and to live out the life He has planned for you. Set an example for all for people no matter how many years they have been on this earth. Don't use your age as a crutch that is keeping you from God, because your days are number and this life is so short. Seek God with everything.