When I was your age...

It's easy to look back and remember what we want to remember - and forget what we want to forget. Making comparisons between what we were - decades ago - and what the younger generation is right now - this can be very dangerous! There can be a lot of pride of it. We can be a bit like the Pharisee who looked down on the publican (tax collector) (Luke 18:9-14). Our selective memory can easily recall what we regard as our strengths - and, just as easily, forget our weaknesses. Let's be very careful when we begin a sentence with the words, "When I was your age ..." It's better to be like the publican, confessing our sins and receiving God's forgiveness, than to be like the Pharisee, pretending to be better than we really are, boasting in our own self-righteousness and never really trusting in Christ and receiving forgiveness from him.