The “NOW” Generation

HEBREWS 10:32-39… But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings, partly by being made a public spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming sharers with those who were so treated. For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one. Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. For yet in a very little while, He who is coming will come, and will not delay. But My righteous one shall live by faith; and if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him. But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

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Oh Lord God, Creator of the heavens and the earth, Giver and Sustainer of life, all life, my life… I humbly come before You now confessing that I stand convicted by the sacrifices that Your children, my brothers and sisters in Christ, have made and are still making in order to truly live out their authentic faith. I am amazed that You have allowed them, and even required of them, such sacrifice; while I, today, living in this modern world, seem to have had it so easy. I’ve not been made a public spectacle or suffered reproaches for the name of Christ… not yet anyway. I’ve not had my possessions confiscated or suffered the loss of my home or my livelihood because of my faith… not yet anyway. I’ve never risked life or limb for You at any point along the way and, if I have, I’m not aware of it, anyway. My life seems so easy compared to those I read about in Your written word. Yet, still, I seem not to be able to see the forest for the trees. I get lost in a maze of daily busyness. I sometimes feel like I’ve been cast adrift on the churning waters of life’s tempestuous seas. And, at times, I even lose my way and forget who, and Whose, I am. Forgive me, Oh Lord, for sometimes being a “shrinker,” rather than boldly living and professing my faith without fear of worldly consequences. What do I need from You, Oh Lord? For what should I ask? I need, and I ask, for an anchor to the past—Your word to help me remember all that You’ve already done for me, and Your Holy Spirit working in my heart to remind me of how far your Son, Jesus, and I have already come together. And Lord, I need, I ask for a transcendent vision for the future. Help me, through the eyes of faith, to ever dream of the endless possibilities—what You can and will do in me, and with me, and through me as I seek to serve You in this present world, as well as all that You have in store for me in that eternal world to come. Lord God, I know that I need a healthy, holistic, spiritual perspective keep me walking by faith, regardless of the difficulties or circumstances. Don’t let me become a whiner, Oh Lord. And if I have been, I repent. Don’t let me become a whiney little snowflake of a creature with no backbone who “shrinks back to destruction.” Rather, I ask Lord, that Your Holy Spirit who dwells within me will strengthen my weaknesses, grow me in all the fruit of the Spirit, grant me power, love, and discipline, and give me the endurance that I need to fight the good fight of faith and finish the race with glory to Your holy name. By the authority, and with the permission, of my High Priest and Mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ, I offer these pleadings unto You today, Oh Lord my God… Amen!