Dear Christian Brothers

There is nothing so heart-warming like seeing you aspiring to be like Christ.This always motivates and encourages me.There's nothing beautiful as a young man who has zeal for the gospel.It is through such brothers that I've been encouraged to stand for God and to take an active role in spreading the gospel.

Whenever I gather with some of the brothers in our mission group,I always see self-denial and humility and the spirit of service.And beautiful it will be,when this can be said about every young Christian man.

Sadly,that is not the case.It's disheartening that some of you my brothers,who stand calling people to righteousness,are the same individuals who are stumbling blocks to some-especially to your sisters in Christ.I am sad when I hear accounts of seemingly God-fearing brothers who go around breaking their sisters' hearts.How?Through stealing of affections.My brothers,it is not wise to open up to sisters as this causes emotional attachment and at the end,when you've given sisters the idea that you are interested,you then go to pursue a relationship with someone else.This is not becoming.

"To trifle with hearts is a crime of no small magnitude in the sight of a holy God. And yet some will show preference for young ladies and call out their affections, and then go their way and forget all about the words they have spoken and their effect. A new face attracts them, and they repeat the same words, devote to another the same attentions.

This disposition will reveal itself in the married life. The marriage relation does not always make the fickle mind firm, the wavering steadfast and true to principle. They tire of constancy, and unholy thoughts will manifest themselves in unholy actions. How essential it is, then, that the youth so gird up the loins of their mind and guard their conduct that Satan cannot beguile them from the path of uprightness."-AH,p57

The Bible admonishes young men:

" Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, ² older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity. "-1 Timothy 5:1-2

My brothers,you would do well to NOT play part in making your sisters' salvation burdensome.Often,you regard your sisters in Christ in selfishness-relating to them as objects-without any emotions whatsoever;but as disposable-fulfilling a certain need and when no longer needed,as good as nothing.

Then there are those brothers who are in relationships-but they are still familiar with every other sister.Now this is also unbecoming.Imagine being in a relationship with a sister and having her open up her heart to every other guy or having her get calls from various guys.It wouldnt be right,would it?

Also,when you are in a relationship with a sister-remember her body-every part of it,belongs to God NOT YOURS. Yes,Im not any better but this whole business of comitting fornication is not right-even if the fruits are visible or not.Please my brothers :).

Lastly,God has not called you to be weak-willed males who are tossed and controlled by females.Learn from your brother Joseph-He did not worry about what the wife of Potiphar was going to think of Him but God.

I do keep you in my prayers and I always pray that God will strengthen you and accomplish His will in your lives.

  
The world is in need of men-men in the truest sense.Only Jesus can make you reach the ideal of a man.Turn to Him-He was once a young man;yet no account of evil was mentioned-especially from sisters,crying about Him playing with their feelings etc.Ask Him to make you true men of God.