River Of Passion

It was in the 1960s that Madison Avenue realized that the youth of America were a potentially potent economic force with their newly established buying power. Along with all the attention given to us, for I was a Baby Boomer also, came a microphone. Some of us used it to shout pro-Ho Chi Minh slogans from atop university statues, some of us used it to attack Richard Nixon, some of us used it to announce to the world the true meaning of love, peace and happiness, and a very few used it to ask "Brother, are you saved?".  The youth never relinquished that microphone but didn't really use it again until the horror of the murderous and imperialist Bush Administration (to use their thoughts) savaged the Middle-East with war. When Barack Hussein Obama came along with no employment history to speak of, no legitimate letters of recommendation, no experience outside of community organizing and not even a birth certificate to prove eligibility for the job he was applying for, the youth came out in force to change the world. Obama received 66 percent of the 18-29 vote in 2008. More recently, Ron Paul became a favorite of young people in the republican primaries. It was in a 16th century English pub, the White Horse Inn, that a youth movement did indeed help to change the world. Located on the grounds of Cambridge University... students, Dons and travellers discussed the works of Martin Luther and out of this discussion came a passion for the hearing of the Word of God which resulted in the English Reformation. America needs a vigorous and positive contribution from its youth at this very moment in our history. It must not be birthed by the spirit of the age but by God's Holy Spirit. Getting a job cannot be the criteria. The college student of today is in a more precarious situation than any generation before them. Not the Civil War, nor World War II, nor the Cuban Missile Crisis compares to it. They are losing their republican form of government, the Constitution that kept the rule of law intact and most importantly the blessings of having God's very hand upon our nation. The original discovery that youth were an economic force has evolved into a monster feeding frenzy with the youth feeding on every materiel and social networking product thrown at them, others feeding on the youth themselves and enemies of America feeding on the vacant minds seeking anything to occupy it.  I realize that you, any young people who may be visiting this site, do not want to hear this. Possibly you are not represented by this description. You have made plans, worked hard and now it is your turn to enter the work force and carve out a niche with a prosperous future. Are you going to attempt this without God? Realize this, past generations had the benefit of living within of a God-fearing populace. Even the agnostic could graze in the fields of plenty. This is not the case today! Others have long since sprayed the DDT of secular humanism over the amber waves of grain, killing the grain it was to protect. You can join this survival of the fittest if you want, where even prosperity is soulless and void of true happiness; or you can join those who are seeking mercy from God and a renewed reverence to the one who blessed your grandparents and their parents as far back as to the arrival on this continent. Do you sometimes feel a void of passion in your life...a meaninglessness that cannot be satisfied by the picture that you paint on your Facebook page? Well, a river of passion flows right by you! Cup your hands and drink from it. Let mercy and peace pass over your palate. A President's election will give but one night of elation where the coronation of the King of Kings provided every morning and every evening with a ceaseless ardor that will make you forever thankful. If you happen to really see the trouble that we are in here in America, that very sight is from God, and He will also give the balm, supply the strength and provide the wisdom to see the joy of redemption even in the darkest hours of this world, and to plan ahead with the full trust that if it be His will it will happen and if it not be His will you would not want it to happen. Here is the only true hope and change...... "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation." 2 Corinthians 5:17