Whose Steps are You Following: Who Do Your Consider A Mentor?

WHO DO YOU CONSIDER YOUR MENTOR

Your life is a function of your association. 

"A mentor is someone who offers advice and counsel, and who lends you his or her resources to help you advance in your professional or personal life"

-Career Adict-

Mentors are an important part of personal and professional development. They are guides through times when people need someone that is able to point them in the right direction. Not just anyone should be your mentor as a Christian youth. Good mentors are enthusiastic people, enjoying the role they play in helping others achieve their goals.

Mentors Value Learning. Good mentors are life-long learners and should want to pass that desire on to everyone they come in contact with. when you come in contact with them, they make you into a learning like type of person.

Therefore, what kind of a mentor should you as a Christian youth Keep:

1. Your Mentors Should Look Like God's Will: There is no old school way of serving God, neither is there a new technology of serving God. God's word remains the same for ever. first of all you have to build yourself in God's word before looking for who to give you council. until you are ready to study, then you are not ready for a change. and whoever you meet, will either be against your plans or give you boring advise.
2. They Should Do God's Will: What's the meaning of doing God's word?
   a) He is Honest/ Truthful and doesn't think of himself alone. A valuable trait in a mentor (and to be frank, in everyone else) is the understanding that it is ok to be an expert and not know something. A mentor that can answer a question with, "I don't know, but I will find you an answer after reading and studying the word" is someone worth spending time with. You have to be sure that he is doing this things that Jesus said. 

   Mark 10:19 King James Version (KJV)

   19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
3. They Should Be Believers: 

How to Get a Good Mentor

1. Read your Bible daily. Do not be content to skim through a chapter merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart. It comforts, guides, corrects, encourages – all we need is there.
2. Learn the secret of prayer. Prayer is communicating. Every prayer that you pray will be answered. Sometimes that answer may be “Yes” and sometimes “No,” and sometimes it is “Wait,” but nevertheless it will be answered.
3. Rely constantly on the Holy Spirit. We know that the Holy Spirit prays for us (Romans 8), and what a comfort that should be to the weakest of us. Stand aside and let Him take over all the choices and decisions of your life.
4. Attend church regularly. The visible church is Christ’s organization upon earth. Christians need one another, we need to gather together to worship God and nothing can take the place of church attendance.
5. Be a witnessing Christian. We witness in two ways: by life and by word – and the two, where possible, should go hand in hand.
6. Let love be the ruling principle of your life. Jesus said to those who followed Him, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another” (John 13:35). The greatest demonstration of the fact that we are Christians is that we love one another.
7. Be an obedient Christian. Let Christ have first place in all the choices of your life.
8. Learn how to meet temptation. Temptation is not sin. It is yielding that is sin. Let Christ through the Holy Spirit do the fighting for you.
9. Be a wholesome Christian. Our lives and appearance should commend the Gospel and make it attractive to others.
10. Live above your circumstances. Don’t let your circumstances get you down. Learn to live graciously within them, realizing the Lord Himself is with you.

To every Christian listening in, let me say: If you are living for Christ, you are doing more than anything else that you possibly could do to bring men to Him.