(I'm really trying to stop guys but I can't.)
My generation has become dull. Like blunt knives incapable of cutting through anything, my generation now lacks critical thinking skills and the desire to research beyond the propaganda we're fed.
To my generation, truth is relative and even the laws of nature should be subject to interpretation and perspective. We're foolishly intelligent. Stupidly genius.
We no longer have anchors. The ancient lines have been crossed. Right is wrong, wrong is right, up can be down, down can be up all because someone somewhere, competent or incompetent, happens to think so.
And because they are a member of a society laden with privileges and opportunities, their entitlement mindsets have become bloated to the point of thinking foundational standards should succumb to their will.
To my generation, now, whatever can be modified in life should be modified to accord itself with their mindset rather than them building discipline and structure around life.
Liberty has given way to lasciviousness, and sanctity to insanity.
Irresponsible miscreants now overwhelm the legislative branch of government with a litany of litigious circumstances against standards that they feel no longer cater to their preferences.
And since even the law is now an inadequate punching bag to be dissed, they have turned their deluded attention to the highest standard there can ever be:
God Himself; and His Word.
Once upon a time, taking the Lord's name in vain was a practice hidden and fearful.
Now it is the conversational script of pg-13 movies since we now teach the upcoming generation to blaspheme their Creator as entertainment.
Once upon a time, being genetically created a certain gender meant something. It meant you were purposed to function with certain varieties of hormones, have certain preferences, and have unique and sometimes exclusively innate capabilities.
But not so today. Today, my generation says purpose is ignoble, genetic codes should be hacked and rewritten, and life in its original form is not only inadequate in comparison to some unknown superhumanness, but is also disposable. Hence abortion becoming cheap. With our trends, soon, euthanasia of the elderly will be the next "thing" since they need too much. We now determine the value of life based on popular opinion... think about that! But I digress...
When did opinion overtake truth?
When did what people think become the explanation of reality?
When did 1 plus 1 become 9 if I decide to think so?
The horror in all this is that this theme now pervades the very house of God with those identifying as children of God!!
They question Him.
Rather than God being a father we trust in and depend upon for guidance and direction, we have turned "Him" into everything from a "her" to a magic entity "it" yet un-hacked; but for whom there must be some formula with which to extract benefits.
Now we shout 7 Hallelujahs, clap for 14 seconds, fast for 21 hours, and then sow seeds of anywhere from $40 or $4,000 in one manipulated sitting because the people of Israel were in the wilderness 40 days and that's how much we should invest to get our manufactured and coercible God to do what we want Him to do, and get our "breakthrough." But what we need is to breakout of the mindsets we've acquired.
Now it's nothing to say "my blessing will be bigger than yours" to our neighbors during service because we really think our ability to shout until our voices crack is what moves God to work in our favor because He's so gullible and fickle a personage, modifying life and timelines at a whim...
My generation now reads its own interpretations into what God has said rather than what God has said into our own circumstances.
Our opinion is now paramount and we have moved God off the throne to the position of a genie; the pastors are our witch doctors, our gifts of giving are briberies for ungodly gain, and our worship is nothing but obeisance to an unknown entity we presume to be moderately intelligent and benevolent, but who is shallow enough to function according to our formulas.
Is this how it should be?
Seriously?
I feel like an annoying voice lately with my questioning but something on the inside of me says I have to say these things.
Things are worsening and it's not funny.
Truth is NOT relative!
God is NOT mocked!
Life is NOT cheap or manufactured!
And death is NOT optional folks!
The identity of King Jesus is NOT up for debate, God's commands are NOT mere suggestions, and eternal punishment is NOT a joke guys!
Judgement is NOT avoidable, time is NOT going backwards, existence is NOT a figment of imagination, and malevolent dimensional beings averse to your good are NOT fictitious!
Your opinion does NOT matter when it comes to truth. It is truth that sets you free when you know it, not you setting yourself free from it to live something else. Whatever else you find is by default a LIE. One very soon to be unraveled.
The nearly insignificant speck of you in this vast expanse of time, life and reality is not capable of kicking against the goad!
You would lose. Fighter jet vs bird in flight...who wins? You know who. And that is our story.
Make all the noise you want, speak all the perverse words you wish that inflate your ego and pump up your adrenaline...you still have no explanation for how that very consciousness you use to defy your Source came to be. And you are still unaware of what comes after when that life you live lackadaisically is snuffed out like a vapor from this place.
Your relevance, oh little worm of a human that you are in comparison to the infinite God is by virtue of His mercy. Were He to choose not to place any value upon your life, your very existence would be forgotten. And it wouldn't matter whether or not you "thought so."
Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord. Only then can you be lifted up.
Your opinion means squat. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Nothing.
Truth is truth and is no respecter of persons. Call yourself "god" all you want from now until tomorrow, it won't change the fact that you still have to perform base actions such as pooping and peeing, or that if you don't eat for the next month, that big mouth of yours won't be able to say much.
It is God who tells you who He is.
It is God who made you and before whom you must give an account of your life.
It is God in whose image you are made.
Dear Millennial Generation, become aware of your fallibilities and acknowledge God's sovereignty. Perhaps then and only then can we slow down or reverse the stupefying of ourselves by our own hyperventilated and faulty opinions. Opinions which still can't definitively explain the origin of life and the ability to have an opinion.