Talk of the boy Joseph. He was not that young compared to the current generation, but those times being 30 was young taking in account that people would live up to 900years. The guy was sold in Egypt, went to prison and the rest if the story we know. But what is outstanding about the boy Joseph is his commitment to God. He fled away from Potiphar‘s wife who lusted after his looks and wanted something more other than his services as a house cleaner.
Our current generation has a problem with running way from temptations. We have become ostriches and have hid our heads in the sand, but that that doesn’t mean that the temptations will leave us. We have a problem of living in purity and not indulging in the sexual sin. Saying a NO! Which mean exactly that has become a Goliath. The book of Ephesians 5.3 urges us to live a pure life and there should not be even a hint of sexual immorality. We should keep our lives holy for he who called us is holy.
The handsome David is also a person to watch very closely. This 17 years boy faces a giant and defeats him, he learnt the secret is not in the sword but in trust. David trusted God in everything in his life. He says in psalms 9.10 that those who know your name will trust in you, for you lord has never forsaken those who seek you.
Trusting in the lord with all our hearts is the only weapon that is going to transform this generation. In life we sometimes view ourselves vulnerable when we trust in someone, but always remember that true joy and love only come with trusting. We have to stop leaning on our own understanding and turn to the giver of wisdom and knowledge. We have to present our anxiety and burdens to the lord for he cares. The most deceitful thing is the heart and thus following our hearts and depending on our own abilities is the leading path to a lost generation. The things we have been advocating for are not even close to what God would desire. Let Davids be born in this generation and let’s trust God with our mountains.
Jeremiah was around 14-19 years when God called him. He claimed to be young but God still used him. Jeremiah accepted God’s will in his life and followed his calling. God says that he has good plans for us plans to give us a hope and a future. Aligning our prayers with God’s will is the only thing that will put this generation in order. God has an order for our lives and the only way to know that is by following his will for our lives.
We have become crawling living sacrifices and have crawled out of the alter when we are supposed to give ourselves fully to him. Paul urges us not to be shaped by the patterns of this world but to be transformed by the renewal of our minds in order to understand God’s perfect will for us. We are only as young as our faith and as old as our doubt, as young as our self confidence and as old as our fears, as young as our hope and as old as our despair, as young as in God’s will and old as leading our own ways. We have to let God lead us to our destiny because he knows what is good for all of us. Give him a chance today and he will surprise you with the much that he can do.
Finally we have Timothy. He walked so closely with Paul and became like a son to him. Paul nurtured him in the ways of faith and helped him to grow up as a responsible man. Paul tells Timothy to set an example to the other believers in speech, life, love and purity. Much education of our time is monumentally inefficient. Too often we have given the youths the cut flowers when in the first place we should teach them how to plant the flower. We have been spoon fed with everything and have always depended on others, but this is the time to rise up and shine for others to emulate you. We have to set examples to the world in the way we talk, live, love and in the walk of holiness. We must have something that the next generation would want to learn from.
It’s time that we get a Paul who will grow us up to be Timothy and at that point grow up to plant our own flowers, for people will never learn to improve unless they look to some standard of example higher and better than themselves. Titus 2.7 tells us to set a good example by doing what is good. James on the hand reminds us to accompany our faith with our deeds. This generation needs an example; we need to set an example to the youths out there. What are you doing to change your immediate environment? This generation need role models to emulate, are you willing to be one? Let us desire to give birth to a Joseph, David, Jeremiah and Timothy in our generation and we will see ourselves rising above unimaginable height.
Wake up let us journey on.
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