Login » Sign Up! » Search

What Will Be Your Teen Choice Award?

Get the discussion questions for What Will Be Your Teen Choice Award?

I’m probably not giving away any surprises by letting you know that the Teen Choice Awards are airing on August 9^th - right?  Now in its 11^th year, this mega-extravaganza will hit the Hi-Def screens across the world, and some of life’s biggest questions will be answered:

Will Katy Perry possibly say or do something controversial?

Will thousands of teenage girls scream at jet engine level decibels for the guys from Glee?

Will Zac Effron take home the ‘Celebrity Smile’ award (presented by Invisalign Teen!)?

And of course the burning dilemma for me is-

How could Taylor Lautner be nominated for ‘The Red Carpet Fashion Icon Male’ when he NEVER EVEN WEARS A SHIRT???  Shouldn’t it be like the ‘Bare Chested Yet Sometimes Furry Fashion Icon Male’ award?

Then there will be Cyrus and Spears and Cosgroves (oh my!) as the performances and presentations weave together one massive show based on millions of votes for dozens of categories. - (like,um, The Fab-u-lous award…really?)

And as always…RPatz will have his character down cold.

I must say that I’m a bit jealous.  Why when I was a teen, we had about 1/1000^th of the choices you now face each and every day.  Think about your options my friend.  Between the ‘net, iphone and ipod apps,  cable/satellite packages with 239,672 channels, and multi-plex theaters with more flicks than you could get through in a year, you are truly the Teen Choice generation.

But as someone who is out of the hormone-driven, angst-fueled roller coaster ride of adolescence, please allow me to offer a bit of advice about choices:

Listen to the counsel of the biggest rock star who ever lived - a King who lived thousands of years ago, but he still ranks as one of the richest, most famous, most accomplished monster party animal of all time.

His name is King Solomon, and if there were a Teen Choice award back in his day, he would have cleaned house every year.  God made him the wisest young person to ever live, but he decided instead to go on a decade long ‘make whatever choice I want’ binge that left him destitute and empty enough to write down his journey so we wouldn’t make the same mistake.  Hear the words from the grave of a man who had it all, but lost everything because of bad choices:

Honor and enjoy your Creator while you're still young,
   Before the years take their toll and your vigor wanes,
Life, lovely while it lasts, is soon over.
   Life as we know it, precious and beautiful, ends.
 The body is put back in the same ground it came from.
   The spirit returns to God, who first breathed it.

The last and final word is this:
   Fear God.
   Do what he tells you.

And that's it. Eventually God will bring everything that we do out into the open and judge it according to its hidden intent, whether it's good or evil (Ecclesiastes 12:1-2;6-7;13-14, The Message paraphrase).

What Solomon is telling us here is that we definitely shouldn’t wait until we are older to think about our choices, and the most important one of all is what choice you decide to make regarding the Person and work of God’s Son, Jesus Christ.  He came to earth and changed history forever, and not only did He claim to be the Son of God and the only way to heaven…He came back from the dead to prove it!

So that really only leaves you with two choices.  If you ‘fear God’ and ‘do what He tells you’, the choice is simple, because-

Now he says that everyone everywhere must turn to him. He has set a day when he will judge the world's people with fairness. And he has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death  (Acts 17:30-31).

Or you can choose to reject Jesus as your only hope of salvation- in which case there is a future ‘choice awards’ ceremony that will end like this:

And I saw a great white throne and the one sitting on it. The earth and sky fled from his presence, but they found no place to hide. Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death.  And anyone whose name was not found recorded in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:11;14-15).

So enjoy the gift of life God gave you, but don’t get so caught up in all the fun choices you have that you miss the most important choice of all - which is choosing eternal life through Jesus Christ.  And definitely don’t let your choice for Jesus go unseen by your friends who don’t know Him, because each day you choose not to share the gospel is one more day they live without the hope of heaven.

Live for Christ and share the gospel…making those two decisions each day will bring you ‘teen choice awards’ from God that are beyond what you can imagine!

 

 

Use the Teen Choice Awards as a springboard to talk with your friends about the choices in our lives that matter - the most important one being choosing Jesus Christ as our only hope of salvation.

 

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD (Joshua 24:15).

For he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2).

You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God (James 4:4).