GENERATION NEXT!

Which generation do you belong to?

What’s peculiar about your generation?

 

With the trends of your generation, how much can you vouch for a better next generation?

How passionate are you about giving your kids a world worth living in?

What efforts are you making in ensuring the next generation celebrate memories of your lifetime?

These are the questions that run through my mind from time to time, and I think you also need to consider them as important if you see life from the perspective of Making A Difference.

Welcome to a technology age where the speed of communication has been geometrically improved, while deepened the gap of genuine human interaction with real feelings. Welcome to an age where kids are succinctly educated about the historic significance of memorial dates, without being taught the priority of forgiveness beyond painful past. An age where immorality is being justified with an excuse of self-actualization, body autonomy, and liberalism of consent, without letting the young minds know how damning such lustful tendencies are. An age where the gospel of relativism has made morality loose it sacredness, and every one almost has a relatively good justification for his actions and lifestyle. An age where office holders prioritize fringe benefits and financial entitlements over value leadership, and people development. An age where politics has been made a profession, rather than a call to service. An age where the 5year old girl knows similar sexual stuffs as the 16year old teenager. An age where Christianity has been nominalized and now preaches doctrines that pampers the propensity to sin. This is the generation we live in. What does the future hold for our kids?

Should we be honest with ourselves, the turns our generation has taken, has left us with deeper insatiable longings, and stronger feelings of oddness that we most often excuse with the saying "Change is constant". We understand that there is a deviation from the norms that we had been born into. We appreciate the fact that the world in growing dynamically every day. But we find it difficult to uphold some age long legacies that help the generation before us, because we feel it will make us archaic. We feel that being dynamic entails embracing every new idea that pops up, and seems to make sense, without x-raying how best to align it with sound moral principles that can truly uphold the fabrics of the society.

In our 21st centuriness, we have not just lived with a 19th century mindset, but we have also practiced and lived a morally mangled version of the 20th century, and called it 21st century realities. 

How do we Make A Difference that will turn the tables?

For the sake of the next generation. For the need of giving our children a world with better moral frameworks and value systems, we must act passionately to restore the right mindset. Truth be told, the world is so big to be turned by one stir, but so little not to be affected by a one-on-one approach.

Its high time we reflect on the kind of world we deserve to live in, and compare it with where we currently live in. Next we honestly rebuild the broken moral frameworks of our society without minding the pleasure we will lose. This calls for building personal value systems and strengthening that of the society that has been squeezed into uselessness. The work must begin with us. We must start with re-inventing our own mind.

We must prioritize innovative and creative thinking, but ensure it’s within the ambience of moral rightness. We must encourage explosive knowledge growth, yet with a true undertone of sound knowledge that fosters peace, unity, progress, and upholds sound value systems.

We need to take some time out to reach out to the younger generation still in the high schools and higher institutions. They need to be told the truth about how much damage has been done to our value systems. Of how morally decadent the society they are living in currently is, and the need to embrace the right values and true moral principles. We need to passionately listen to their deep questions and give clarity to the confusions. We need to advocate for a mindset that only takes the right lessons from the preceding generation, while discarding her flaws and mis-deeds even if they appeared appealing and enriching. We need to let them know that while greed is an inherent human nature, that a life devoted to pleasing God will always help them overcome the temptation to dance to such mataba-dance. We need to speak to their conscience about the truth that forgiveness is golden. That there is dignity in doing the right thing even if many people are doing the wrong things. We need to let them know, that the purpose of sex education is not for them to go experiment with themselves, but to know how best to respond to the natural hormones and feeling at the appropriate times.

Without the right message, we can’t get to effect the needed change. Without a decision to speak up and make a significant difference in the life of the youngest breeds living in our generation, we cannot help them build their lives the right way. 

For the sake of rescuing the country and continent from the devastating blows of morality apostasy.

For the sake of having better next years of fulfilment and progressive development.

For the sake of handing over to our unborn kids a world they will be proud to live in.

For the sake of satisfying a waiting generations longing for a right path and nation.

For the sake of glorifying God in our existence here on earth, before living for eternity,

Let us live intentionally, with the mindset and proactive thoughts of Making A Difference each day by adding values and building the systems that will help generation next attain their God given purpose.

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