I have heard recently negative things
about this generation and how our country or this world is going to
heck. I understand that things in the past may have been more pure,
simple and innocent and less gadget infested. But, let’s not miss
what God is doing now. I’ve been a part of something where
hundreds of 20-30 year olds each year are coming alive and changing, and thus
changing this world, this nation. And that’s in my bubble, but how
many more are out there? They may have ipods and ipads, but their
hearts are alive! I see and hear of more and more young people
fighting against injustices. Sexual slavery has been around for a
long time and now during my generation I’m starting to see
awareness brought, a battle cry heard, a fist being raised against
this injustice more than ever. Child soldiers have been used for a
long time as well, and once again, I can say I’m seeing this dark
injustice being uncovered more and more. I was born in the 80’s
for a reason. I’m living in this time for a reason. Embrace your
time, the time you’ve been given to live in this world at this
particular time!
He is our hope. And I see hope, I
feel His hope. I’m glad I’m living in this time, because it’s
His time. I see God in control, He’s not surprised, He is
heartbroken by not being in fellowship with all His children, with
them turning to other things and not Him, with Him not being their
Father. It can be easy to look at circumstances and what’s going
on now to define this time, but He’s here, and there is hope. A
tattooed, pierced druggie who doesn’t know God is no different than
a 50’s housewife who also doesn’t know God.
I’ve also heard these words spoken to
a congregation of Christians “We are the problem. You are the
problem.” The context wasn’t blameshifting, it was a general
message. This sort of makes me feel lousy and does more to keep me
in a pit of being a hopeless sinner. If I heard how He truly looks
at me that would do more to convict and encourage change than those
words. We are His saints and His hope. I am His hope, not the
problem! He wants to trust me to represent Him; He calls me saint!
This gives me a joy that from this place springs up a desire to want
to be more and more like Him.
