I was born in 1978, right at the verge of the 80's... Big hair, parachute pants, break dancing, mismatched outfits, and young women singing about their independence were topping the charts. Oh we had our fair share of rap and boy bands singing love songs; and music and MTV seemed to tell a story about love and the chaos that raged around us. I was born into Generation X, right as the beginning of technology was making its first wave into society. Dial up internet on giant computers, car phones and pagers, and making some of our first phone calls on phones without cords... These are just a few of my memories when I look back and see just how fast the world was changing. Little did I know, we'd never catch up.
Technology made it's debut as I was being immersed in a culture that triumphed at the advancement. Life could move faster, become more convenient, and improve our efforts in advancing towards the unlimited sea of information. And information was what we desired... Knowledge seemed to be the answer to the questions that warred around us, and with the growth of knowledge, wisdom began its' slow decent.
When I look at the world through the eyes of my teenage mind, (which, mind you, is decades ago now) I can see that my childhood does not mirror my daughters. As much as I want my anthem to be that I can relate just because I was once twelve, the world my daughters are growing up in is very different. And no dream of recovering the "good ole days" seems to be the real answer to the battles my youngest faces everyday by just going to school. There is bullying that is done on a scale that never sleeps. Whether it is through cyberspace or literal personal space, the effects linger and the answers seem to take more effort to realize than asking an entire generation of teenagers to "just ignore them"! And bullying is just one of the issues my daughter faces today... there are so many young people who are unsure how they "identify", when life truly begins, whether a planet or an animal is worth more than a human life, what marriage is or isn't, and not to mention the age old question "what is LOVE"?
The truth is I want to be on the front lines of fighting for justice for our children, our nation, our world, but many days I feel the massive assignment too much to bear. What battles do I fight? What rights do we uphold? What are the big agenda items that we must tackle? What am I for? What am I against, even if I'm left fighting many of these opinions alone? You see the answer is the same. It has been the same since time began. What I realize is that all of these issues are not a surprise to God, nor are they new issues. The battle against humanity is as old as time itself, yet I KNOW A GOD who chose me, who chose you. I KNOW A GOD who is for us, who longs to know us, and longs to restore us back into relationship with Him alone. And once we are in line with Our Creator everything else seems to fall into place. But it doesn't mean there won't be battles!
The greater truth is that the answer to the big questions about what I believe and how to fight on the front lines of what I believe are found in the living, never changing, WORD OF GOD. The bible is living and active, and restores our relationship, our perception and perceptive on God our Father so that we can defend, protect, and stand on truth that never fails. So no matter when you were born, or what hairstyle you had, or what outfits you were astonished you wore, or even what advanced technology we will hold in our hands that will make our lives faster or easier, God will remain the same. He was faithful to Generation X, and He will continue to be faithful even now! Even as our children grow up and have to answer the tough questions, they too will know where to find the TRUTH and HOPE that never changes.
“I am God—yes, I Am. I haven’t changed. And because I haven’t changed, you, the descendants of Jacob, haven’t been destroyed. You have a long history of ignoring my commands. You haven’t done a thing I’ve told you. Return to me so I can return to you,” says God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
“You ask, ‘But how do we return?’ Malachi 3:6-7
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