A Word to Graduates

Dear young Friends,

The Lord has been good to you and us. He has blessed you with a sound mind and helped you throughout the years of study at universities, colleges, and high school. The Lord has protected you and provided you with all that you needed.

After years of hard work, sacrifice and prayers of yourself, parents, grandparents, and office bearers, the Lord has rewarded your labors with a diploma. It behooves us, first of all, to acknowledge the Lord for His blessings bestowed upon you and us. Receive these blessings of the Lord with a humble heart. There is no reward in boasting in your own wisdom and strength. Give thanks unto the Lord who has been mindful of you.

In Proverbs 4 we read of the fruit in Solomon’s life upon the instruction received from his parents. He always remembered the way in which he was instructed. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. This wisdom is not only important, but all-important. Earthly wisdom may be a goodly pearl, but this wisdom from above is the pearl of great price, worth getting indeed, but only to be had by selling all that we have to buy it.

I hope and pray that God may plant a desire in your heart to stay with the truth wherein you were brought up. It is one of the greatest outward blessings and privileges we can receive—to be brought under the administration of the means of grace. Please do not despise your heritage. May each one of you be given to say with Joshua, “As for me… I will serve the LORD.”

I hope that you may have a desire after graduation to become a full member of the congregation. It is an unbiblical (and thus wrong) custom to quit attending catechism class after graduating from high school. You can never graduate from a catechism class until you become a member of the church. Satan knows very well the longer he can keep you from joining the church, the more chance he has to influence the many life-long, pattern-setting decisions you make during your critical, young adult years. Satan laughs when he hears your excuses: “I am too young; I am not ready. I first will finish college; when I am older, I’ll get more serious.”

Dear young friends, may the Lord grant you a strong desire to walk in His ways. May He guide and direct your paths and incline your heart to fear the Lord all the days of your life. “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

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