1945 TEEN'S COMMANDMENTS
1945 TEEN'S COMMANDMENTS
I.
Put your love for God and what you think he wants you to do before any affection or activity.
II.
God demands your whole life. Don't put more value on clothes, cars, money, offices, social standing popularity, or public approval than on pleasing god. If you put these other things first you and your children will suffer the consequences of a misdirected life that is only half happy and half useful.
III
.Don't think lightly of God, speak of him in slighting terms, use his name as a swear word, or take your Christianity and church membership as a ticket for admitting you into the accepted world of "nice" people.
IV.
Remember that Sunday is a day given you for spiritual enrichment. For everything you do on Sunday you should ask: is this either building my character, helping someone else, or drawing me closer to God? Take time to worship God, take stock of yourself, do helpful things for others, and give your physical body a freshening up.
V.
Make your home relationships meaningful by mutual understanding, cooperation, and expressing love. Make your parents proud of you instead of worrying them into an early grave. Help make God the center of your present home, and plan to have him the foundation of the one you will build.
VI.
Don't harm another person by blackballing, criticizing, discriminating, forming sets that make a point to exclude, "politicizing" unfairly, being satisfied with a heartless labor scheme, or neglecting to tell of Christ.
VII.
Don't ruin the clean fun and real joy of your relations with others by physical "thrills" which satisfy only temporarily and crowd out the wonderful companionship of sharing wholesome fun, beautiful experiences, service, worship, and the planning of a real home.
VIII.
Don't take credit for someone else's work. Don't steal another's chance of doing something by cheating or lying. Don't push in where another belongs. Be honest to the last penny and the last word.
IX.
Don't criticize. Look for the good instead of the bad. Rather than compare someone else's actions to yours compare yourself to Christ and having character traits that bring you closer to him. Then you will spend your time improving yourself rather than judging others.
X.
Instead of wishing you had something you don't have and comparing your material state to 'that of those who have more, compare it with the thousands that have less.
By Katherine Myers