Appreciation

I once read an explanation of the text: “Lord, remember not the sins of my youth”, and the author concluded that the sin of youth is the sin of lack of ap­preciation. Failure to appreciate what God, our parents, teachers, ministers, and associates are doing and have done for us, that is the sin of youth. The author further explained that he had reached that conclusion because failure to appreciate so strikingly reveals the enmity in our hearts against God and man. While in a peculiar sense lack...