Pop Wisdom Lesson One for Millennials
Greetings in the Lord!
It is now just past the Chinese New Year, so everyone globally has officially begun 2018--yea! This year the Lord has been speaking to me about 2018 in a little different manner, mainly by giving me small insights about things to ponder or by giving glimpses and unctions/desires for new things in my heart, and by reconnecting me to family and old friends. Its been an organic process of getting in sync with Him and absorbing the visceral flow of His planned purposes...kind of like falling in love with the way He moves me. Sounds like a pop song, doesn't it? Yep, and the effect its had on me is that I am enjoying life and people more, regaining an excitement for adventure and for the new things that I feel He has in store for me and corporately for the Body of Christ. And honestly, I also have had a change of heart for the younger and millennial generation. It's true. I didn't realize how antagonistic I had become towards them and the pop/internet culture they are being raised up in. Probably many Gen Xer's and older folks can relate to that, I suppose.
Anyway, today's word comes from Job 8:11-22 and it addresses this pop/internet/celebrity culture we find ourselves in, which is really nothing more than the modern ways people hope to achieve accomplishments and establish themselves, maybe even about creating a legacy, but most certainly about the worldly way in which people seek to become rich and famous--and we know this is not a new concept by any means! Its as old as humankind itself, for we have this inherent desire to be liked and admired, and to have no worries, just security and happiness. So today's prophetic word revisits this age-old issue and reminds us that anything truly lasting and secure is done by cooperating with God's ways, plans and purposes for our lives. To forget God and try to do it on our own for our own glory is foolishness, temporal, arrogant, and will ultimately be overlooked and replaced by someone else. In effect, this passage outlines "anti-legacy," or 'How to be conveniently disregarded and insecure,' always having to strive and struggle to maintain relevancy for what we have done on our own. It illustrates the futile principle of "having things without having blessing."
This is a timely word for many industries but especially for Hollywood/Bollywood wanna-be's, rising pop stars, internet "personalities," political newcomers, and young, ambitious entrepreneurs. For there is little in our modern culture to model, encourage, or disseminate the wise counsel that is given in today's Scripture verses to this young generation. In fact, the biggest travesty is the complete secularization of business models, TV/news programming, public schooling, and so on. So it is good to remember what Scripture has to say about pursuing the desires of our heart with and without God.
"Can papyrus reeds grow tall without a marsh? Can marsh grass flourish without water? While they are still flowering, not ready to be cut, they begin to wither more quickly than grass. The same happens to all who forget God. The hopes of the godless evaporate. Their confidence hangs by a thread. They are leaning on a spider's web. They cling to their home for security, but it won't last....The godless seem like a lush plant growing in the sunshine, its branches spreading across the garden. Its roots grow down through a pile of stones; it takes hold on a bed of rocks. But when it is uprooted, it's as though it never existed! That's the end of its life, and others spring up from the earth to replace it."
"But look, God will not reject a person of integrity, nor will He lend a hand to the wicked. He will once again fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the home of the wicked will be destroyed."
~Be blessed and be a blessing.
It is now just past the Chinese New Year, so everyone globally has officially begun 2018--yea! This year the Lord has been speaking to me about 2018 in a little different manner, mainly by giving me small insights about things to ponder or by giving glimpses and unctions/desires for new things in my heart, and by reconnecting me to family and old friends. Its been an organic process of getting in sync with Him and absorbing the visceral flow of His planned purposes...kind of like falling in love with the way He moves me. Sounds like a pop song, doesn't it? Yep, and the effect its had on me is that I am enjoying life and people more, regaining an excitement for adventure and for the new things that I feel He has in store for me and corporately for the Body of Christ. And honestly, I also have had a change of heart for the younger and millennial generation. It's true. I didn't realize how antagonistic I had become towards them and the pop/internet culture they are being raised up in. Probably many Gen Xer's and older folks can relate to that, I suppose.
Anyway, today's word comes from Job 8:11-22 and it addresses this pop/internet/celebrity culture we find ourselves in, which is really nothing more than the modern ways people hope to achieve accomplishments and establish themselves, maybe even about creating a legacy, but most certainly about the worldly way in which people seek to become rich and famous--and we know this is not a new concept by any means! Its as old as humankind itself, for we have this inherent desire to be liked and admired, and to have no worries, just security and happiness. So today's prophetic word revisits this age-old issue and reminds us that anything truly lasting and secure is done by cooperating with God's ways, plans and purposes for our lives. To forget God and try to do it on our own for our own glory is foolishness, temporal, arrogant, and will ultimately be overlooked and replaced by someone else. In effect, this passage outlines "anti-legacy," or 'How to be conveniently disregarded and insecure,' always having to strive and struggle to maintain relevancy for what we have done on our own. It illustrates the futile principle of "having things without having blessing."
This is a timely word for many industries but especially for Hollywood/Bollywood wanna-be's, rising pop stars, internet "personalities," political newcomers, and young, ambitious entrepreneurs. For there is little in our modern culture to model, encourage, or disseminate the wise counsel that is given in today's Scripture verses to this young generation. In fact, the biggest travesty is the complete secularization of business models, TV/news programming, public schooling, and so on. So it is good to remember what Scripture has to say about pursuing the desires of our heart with and without God.
"Can papyrus reeds grow tall without a marsh? Can marsh grass flourish without water? While they are still flowering, not ready to be cut, they begin to wither more quickly than grass. The same happens to all who forget God. The hopes of the godless evaporate. Their confidence hangs by a thread. They are leaning on a spider's web. They cling to their home for security, but it won't last....The godless seem like a lush plant growing in the sunshine, its branches spreading across the garden. Its roots grow down through a pile of stones; it takes hold on a bed of rocks. But when it is uprooted, it's as though it never existed! That's the end of its life, and others spring up from the earth to replace it."
"But look, God will not reject a person of integrity, nor will He lend a hand to the wicked. He will once again fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the home of the wicked will be destroyed."
~Be blessed and be a blessing.
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