Why wait until we are older?

While I love the King James Version (KJV) I have to say that I think the intent of this scripture is best captured in the Contemporary English Version (CEV) of the Bible. The CEV read as follows:

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7
[1] Keep your Creator in mind while you are young! In years to come, you will be burdened down with troubles and say, "I don't enjoy life anymore."
[2] Someday the light of the sun and the moon and the stars will all seem dim to you. Rain clouds will remain over your head.
[3] Your body will grow feeble, your teeth will decay, and your eyesight fail.
[4] The noisy grinding of grain will be shut out by your deaf ears, but even the song of a bird will keep you awake.
[5] You will be afraid to climb up a hill or walk down a road. Your hair will turn as white as almond blossoms. You will feel lifeless and drag along like an old grasshopper. We each go to our eternal home, and the streets are filled with those who mourn.
[6] The silver cord snaps, the golden bowl breaks; the water pitcher is smashed, and the pulley at the well is shattered.
[7] So our bodies return to the earth, and the life-giving breath returns to God.

If you want to be rich – invent or find a way to stop the ageing process. In fact, if you could somehow find a way to keep people young, I think you would be the richest person in the world.

There is a level of energy and enthusiasm, and ability that presents itself in the “days of our youth” and unfortunately there is no way to regain our youth again.

It is as youth that we need to get busy about impacting the kingdom of God. Why wait until we are older?