I was talking to my mother in law today about how many young people seem to either not take their faith seriously or just lose it entirely when they come of age. Many, not all, of course. Lots of anecdotal evidence feeds into this opinion, such as my eldest son telling me recently that he only has one friend who really prays (she’s a Godsend, by the way).
My MIL’s reply was very wise: “Maybe they still don’t understand that they need to be saved.”
So true. We live in peace and plenty, even in our current “hard times” (which are, historically speaking, still very mild).
Why accept the Lordship of a Savior when it’s so easy to remain your own personal lord and your own personal savior?
Pray for our younger generation. For my entire Christian life, I’ve heard Christian young people declare “we can be the generation that changes the world for Christ.”
It’s been a long while since I’ve heard that sentiment. May they, and we, wake up.
From my own experience, I think it’s partly because once out from under the parental dictates (that sounds harsher than I mean it), young adults test their faith, have a crisis of faith, or whatever to see if it’s really theirs or whether they had that faith because of other factors as children. Mine manifested as a crisis of faith – was it really my own faith or something I did because it was expected? Two years of no church or anything Christian in my life right after college led me to realize that it was my own and I found it essential for life.
Prayer is key – with and for them.