Teen night: what inspiration! Whats next?

This past week we had an oppurtunity to take the teens to an all-night function at a local church. I was expecting a few hundred kids of varying age with an air of the world tingeing it.

Was I ever surprised.

There were thousands of teens, all churchgoing faithful teens. 200 participated in bible drills, 30 sang and Prayed. 

All teens.

Not Old folks doing stuff.

Every now and then affirmation of

That kind is needed to strengthen our hearts that maybe the future is not so dark. That maybe the War, the battle will not be over once we are gone.

There are banner carriers coming along behind to pick up the cause once we fall.

Yet even after that glorious service, It left me thinking: what am I doing to actively prepare those left behind once I am not there for them to lean on.

Now many call this type of thinking looking after your legacy, worry about your footprint.

I however am going to phrase this as: what am I doing to preserve God's legacy? What am I, personally, doing to prepare the next generation?

This question while most appropriate at this time of the new year, is not fundamentally a new year question. This should be an everyday question. An everyday goal to affect someone's life in a positive way that further's the Will of God.

Are we just entertaining our teens with movies and events? Or are we actively teaching them that there is coming a day when they will have to stand and make a choice. Perhaps there is coming a day when they must choose God or death. When their very life may be at stake if they choose God Jehovah and Jesus.

 Are we building their inner strength, their prayer life, their bible reading, their relationship with God, to the point that they have the courage, the willpower to stand and affirm Christ?

How can they stand if we don't set the example? How can they serve when they have no idea what that means?

How will they be a voice in the wilderness if we have taught them soft, mealy mouthed religion?

Proverbs 1:7-10 KJV

7¶The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

We have done our world a dis-service. We have been remiss in our duties.

We have, notice that WE, God's people, we have failed our children! We have been too soft, too easy believesm. We have let them do what they want so we don't have to fight argue and struggle to get them out the door.

We have failed.  I am grateful that we have some young people ready to go, ready to pick up our burdens if we fall, but what else are we doing to prepare them?