We speak of The Greatest Generation, The Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and on it goes to what good end? Only God knows, for every generation needs Jesus.

Of course, while each generation’s personality nuances make for interesting sociological talk, a generational label does not determine an individual’s personality—personality being another word for the soul. Nor is that label of any use against the eternal matters at stake for the soul. And as I understand it, these are the matters:

God made the universe and us. We rebelled and fell. Death is the consequence, and separation from God. Yet, in His mercy, God sent a Savior to redeem us. Jesus lived the perfect life, then died as our perfect sacrifice on the cross, paying for the sins of all generations of men and women, from well before The Greatest Generation to well past the Millennials. Then—and this is the point not to miss—Jesus resurrected so that we could receive everlasting life by laying down our wills at the foot of that woeful, glorious cross.

It has to be said. There’s too much sociology; too much psychology; too many man-made solutions that look past the God who holds the universe and us together to start: “All things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together” (Col 1:16-17). As tools, many of these studies are fine, fun, useful even. As solutions to the ultimate condition of man, they fall infinitely short. Left to our own devices, we are a mess; to our own solutions, hopeless. We have a sin problem, and we face a sin-caused predicament—death looms, and this is unsolvable alone. The only solution is Jesus. As the Bible makes clear, we are both broken and blessed: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 6:23).

Need we more reason to recognize the gravity (and the solution) of our predicament? Even so, to escape death’s shadow, many choose the madness of rejecting Christ, shown in their efforts to avoid, deny, and dismiss. By this, they reject the lasting joys offered as a gift and remain in the mire of sin. Others, as the generational members of the body of Christ have done, eagerly choose to accept God’s invitation: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you” (Mt 7:7). Yes, please help me Jesus!

In a world wallowing in madness, timeless wisdom echoes the need for God’s redemptive hand. The masterful fictional detective, Hercule Poirot, once shared these penetrating words when consoling a young lady who had already suffered so much in her young life: “There is nothing in the world so damaged that it cannot be repaired by the hand of Almighty God. I encourage you to know this because without this certainty, we should all of us be mad.”

“All of us” spans all the generations of man, one can’t help but notice, and so the implication could not be clearer: For every generation, the solution to man’s predicament isn’t sociological—man understanding man. It’s salvational—man understanding his need for a Savior, and then placing his trust in Jesus to rescue his soul.

I hope this encourages you to boldly share Christ’s saving grace with every generation today.

Kevin Murray
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