Advice to Young People- Taking Responsibility (TMF:558)

Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Peace to Live By: Advice to Young People- Taking Responsibility (TMF:558) - Daniel Litton
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       And that leads me to my next point, number five, which is young people have to take responsibility for taking care of themselves. Now the age at which this responsibility transfer completely changes over will vary from person to person, as there isn’t one set universal standard for all. For each person, there comes a time that you have to move out of the house, to take care of yourself. It seems reasonable for most that this should occur by age 30, as even psychologists recognize the ‘Emerging Adulthood’ period, we’ll say, between 18 to 30 years old, to be generous. Many people will move back home after college is over, and sometimes stay there a few years. But we should be on our own—for most—by age 30. So, number six, as we will be on our own until we get married, and many will be living with friends, it is important to keep watch on our purity and to stay sexually pure. As you have more and more freedoms in college and then living on your own, temptations in this area are undoubtedly going to come. Hopefully, if we have surrounded ourselves with Christians, or at least one solid Christian friend who is close to us, the temptations will be less.