He "Continued Growing Up With Jehovah"

 Samuel spoke. "I have grown old and gray" he told the crowd. His whitening hair added weight to his words. He then said: "I have walked before you from my youth until this day."  (1 Samuel 11:14, 15; 12:2) Though Samuel was old, he had not forgotten his youth. His memories of those early days were still vivid. The decisions he had made back then, as a growing boy, had led him to a life of faith and devotion to his God, Jehovah.

Samuel had to build and maintain faith, although again and again he was surrounded by people who were faithless and disloyal. Today, it is just as changeling to build faith, for we live in a faithless and corrupt world. (Read Luke 18:8.) Let us see what we can learn from Samuel's example, starting his early boyhood.

Next time: "Ministering Before Jehovah, as a Boy" 

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