Chosen Generation

        In the high school ministry of True North, we are singing a new song called, Chosen Generation by Chris Tomlin. The chorus goes like this:

"We are a chosen generation
Rise up, holy nation
God, we live for You"      
             
               These lyrics are so amazing! As teenagers, we are going to be the ones who grow up and might be having kids of our own some day and will be voting and making some huge decisions! In Psalm 78 the title is, Tell the Coming Generation.

"We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and His might, and the wonders that He has done." -Psalm 78:4

      Our generation needs to know the amazing works of God and that He sent His Son to die on the cross for us, so that we can have eternal life with Him and be saved from God's coming judgement!

"That the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments." -Psalm 78:6-7

      
           But keep His commandments. In Exodus 20:6 it says "but showing steadfast love to thousands who love me and keep my commandments." We are to keep His commandments. God also commands us in Matthew 28:19 to make disciples of all nations. How do we do that? By telling others about Christ and what He did for us!
          
           I have heard so many people say that our generation is so corrupt and that we are going to change the world in bad ways and that there is no way we can stop this. YES THERE IS! How? By spreading the news of Jesus Christ! I remember in one of Pastor Bobby's sermon's a couple of weeks ago he said, "Do not let the good news of Jesus Christ become old news!" This is such a convicting point! Lets start a revival so that our coming generation will not be "corrupt" but that we will be on fire for Christ! Does this get anyone else excited?! One simple way to start is telling everyone in our high schools who Jesus Christ is!! We need to rise up, let God take the lead, and share the Word of God!

"We run with passion for Your name, we run
Freedom, You've broken every chain, we run
Our God will not be moved
Our God will never be shaken
We run to You, we run"

Venting is a Sin!

        So today in my health class, my teacher was giving us some time to read through the chapter we were going through. I was reading this "Daily Situation" box in the textbook. It gave you this situation where a boy, named David, was told by his mom to come home straight from school and do chores. Well David came home and was too tired, so he decided to watch some TV and then he would do his chores. His mom came home, got mad, and then David went storming off to his room. It seemed like a pretty typical story of teengaers to me! Then I was reading below it and it was giving you advice on ways to deal with this moment. Its #1 suggestion was to call up a friend and "vent" your all of your feelings to him/her and to get all of your emotions out! This came to a surprise to me! Our world today is telling us that it is healthy to go around, vent our feelings and not control our emotions!

"A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back." -Proverbs 29:11

      It says right here in this verse that venting is wrong! If you vent, this verse calls you a FOOL! But the WISE man quitely holds [his feelings/emotions] back! Many people will get this confused with telling others what is going on in your life. There is a difference between that and venting! When you are venting to someone, something is usually going wrong in your life, you are usually upset or annoyed at something or someone as well! But it is important to tell your brothers and sisters in Christ how they can be praying for you!

"The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult." -Proverbs 12:16