RAISING A GODLY GENERATION

RAISING  A GODLY GENERATION.

BY ELDER Thomas Olonde

As a nation we are being faced with a lot of challenges that needs to be addressed.  It seems to me   that the solution to all this challenges lies with the youths therefore it is important to seek for the solution together.

As a result of these challenges a lot of  young people have taken up research in order to find out the remedies to this our world problem.

 However, our remedy will not bear fruit if we don't begin right and ask the right question nevertheless, our troubles and challenges will only be sorted out if we start with GOD who is the author and perfector of our faith.

That is why  it is important to talk about a Godly Generation. God has given us an inheritance which is the world. It is  meant to be dominated  and subdued hence  taken care  of by God`s children and it  is going to be difficult to  do that unless we know the creator of the universe and the purpose of our existence.

The questions to start  with is, do we have this generation that is called Godly generation?   is It possible to raise up a godly generation at this time and age?  what is the meaning of godly generation?

To answer this challenge let us first of all define the statement of the word.

To raise simply means to bring up, while Godly, according to this statement is an attitude that is God oriented and is geared to make God happy.

 Generation according to bible dictionary is a body of people who live at the same time in a given period of history.

 Deuteronomy 32:1-5 Moses describes one generation that God wanted to perfect because of their corruption, crookedness and rebellion. God called them in v5 that they have corrupted themselves; their spot is not the spot of his children. They are perverse and crooked generation.

Generation is roughly synonymous with word age, just as we can say our age is characterized by love of technology. Mathew 11:16 JESUS described another generation which was numb totally out of serious sense of agency.

 In Luke 9:41 Jesus called them a perverse generation, they were faithless and didn't have any sense of direction. Godly generation in nutshell is an offspring that are born and brought up with a heart that is God oriented. An attitude that craves to know what pleases God and endeavors to do what   God has revealed as his will voluntarily.

WE CAN ALSO SAY THAT AGENERATION IS ASINGLE SUCCESSION MADE UP OF A SET OF INDIVIDUAL WHO SHARES ACOMMON ANCESTORS.

Sometimes it is used to indicate span of time.

GODLY is piety or reverence towards GOD 1Tim2; 2.

Godliness means more than religious profession and Godly conduct; it also means the reality and power of vital union with God. To bring up   offspring  that fear GOD is very necessary in our age and to be an offspring that respect and follow after God is a plus and necessary.

It is very important to be generation that upholds God not only as our creator but as our father who loves us and is interested in our own affair. We therefore need to be interested in what God is interested in,  and be  pleased in what God is pleased with.

A Godly generation aims to live for God and strived to please God in all that we do all the days of our lives , knows who God is, and understands his or her relationship with the divine and understands that his roles or responsibility and duty is to make known God`s goodness, glory and mercy.

We need to involve ourselves in the affairs that make God happy.

For example Godless generation sees that it is normal to practice homosexual or lesbianism.

If you don't know what this term means please not that homosexual is the practice where male individual get attracted to the same sex and hence marry each other while lesbianism is a practice where female marry a female. ROM 1:25FF these are acts of abomination as far as God is concerned.

Godly generation understands what it means to be faithful and righteous, strives to please God both in word and deed. Just like Paul In Phil 3:9 to know Jesus and the power that brought him back to life.  He didn't want to manifest his own righteousness but the righteousness of Christ which comes by faith.

A Godly generation endeavors to devote his or her time in prayer and dedication to godly activities. Showing love and mercy to all and standing in a gap to be what Jesus would be if he were physically present. Loving God with all your heart mind soul and strength and loving their neighbors' as they love themselves. This is really a cardinal responsibility for a born again Christian.

 Godly generation operates under law of God.  They believe in God`s faithfulness to hear the prayer of his children and God`s mercy to forgive those who repent from the bottom of their hearts.

Genesis 12 :1-4 Abram was given a command and a promise of a new generation.Gen 6:1-8 Noah, lived at crucial time in the history of humanity his generation were also corrupt and evil. But Noah was found righteous.

A Godly generation is generation that is born again John 3:5-7 Jesus in his discourse 10. With Nicodemus, told him frankly that he needed to be born again from above.Peter in his talk to the congregation lamented in the 1 Peter2:9ff that A godly generation is a chosen one, it is so peculiar and different from other generation.

The living God expect the young people to walk in his way, but we cannot walk in his way if we do not know his son Jesus who is the only way to the father. He expects the young people to walk in the light, an act that is so impossible until we accept the light who is Jesus Christ to shine in our lives and through the holy spirit show our sin  which in turn leads us to repent in order to be forgiven and hence get saved.

Godly generation is the hope of our future.  Noah was righteous in his generation and God spared him because he communed with him. He talked to God and God talked with him.                                                                           The young Hebrew brothers Shadrack,  Meshack and Abednego were prayerful. Daniel also prayed earnestly to God.

God is looking to find a Godly generation who can pray who can trust him, adore him, depend on him and can seek him and he can answer them, Our God is not arespecter ofpersons.

Psalms 119:1-2.God says blessed are the undefiled In the way, who walk in the law of the lord, blessed are they that keep his testimonies and seek him with the whole heart. It is my prayer that the young people of our generation will begin to see the essence of what I have discussed in this lesson which can be summarized in short as living to please God in this generation in this day and age.

 That to me is a Godly generation.

Let us therefore strive to be A Godly generation not only before men but before God.