Generations of Joy

Psalm 45:15-17
15 Led in with joy and gladness,
they enter the palace of the king.

16 Your sons will take the place of your fathers;
you will make them princes throughout the land.

17 I will perpetuate your memory through all generations;
therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.

I love when our youth gets so excited for God that they "want" to be at church. When I see teenagers inviting other teenagers to youth group it makes me smile. The youth is important because they are our future. Okay ladies don't say eww or think I'm crazy but... someday you will be mothers if it is God's will for you to be. Ultimately though you have the ability to do great things. You can shine your light to the world. The world looks at you yes... the world looks at our youth and thinks why are they so messed up? Well, you ladies and yes you guys also who are going to church and bringing your friends, you are looked at as a light. A light we need in our world today. A light that is greatly lacking. This verse above says to take the "place of your fathers". So many times... we compare ourselves to our parents. We do not want to be like them. We think maybe even sometimes they are boring or don't understand us. However, God hasn't called us to be like our parents. God wants us to take the place of our parents. If we have generational curses it is up to us to break them. Time to shine the joy that past generations have been lacking. Bring your light to life. Stand up and realize that we are called to battle and it takes us young people to show God's glory and victory over the enemy.

Some of you who read this may be older but it's still not to late for you to be joyful also. God calls us to have a childlike faith. He wants to keep us ever joyful and youthful in our hearts. Also, God wants you to know that you will have a great impact on today's youth if you can shine that light inside you enough for them to realize joy doesn't fade. It's so easy through the years of hardship for our lights to fade. I'm sure a lot of you older readers have had a lot of hardships. It's time to release those to God and keep shining and moving forward.

Generations to come will still be learning to worship learning to express the joy of Christ's salvation. However if it doesn't start now it will fade. So be strong be like Jehoshaphat's army our worshipers at the front and let's win this battle! Are you ready?

1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one despise or think less of you because of your youth, but be an example (pattern) for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.