For the sake of the upcoming generation

"Our parents have taught us to think generationally. The choices I make today will impact future generations. When you have a mindset of preparing for your future family, you feel a weight of responsibility knowing that your decisions today will affect the lives of others for generations to come. Not a moment can be wasted. There is not time for foolishness. There is not time for making selfish choices. There is not time to take the easy route. As Christians, we must be about bigger things"
 Miss Melissa Keen 


" What we fail to realize is that all achievements are eventually surpassed, records are broken, reputations fades, and tributes are forgotten."
Rick Warren



I wasted part of my life trying to invest it in the wrong things for the wrong reasons. I tried to build the sand castles and collect plastic trophies that would mount up to nothing in the end. But life took a turn when God stepped in and all my achievements start to melt down to nothing.The broad roads signs that seemed to lead up to great opportunities suddenly closed down. And for a moment there seemed to have  been a fog of confusion about life.
In a youth group a wise man said:
"You weren't put here to make a name for yourself. God did not send you to earth to create a legacy or momentum in your name.You are here because of Him and for Him alone."

Through those very words, I found my purpose in life.

I agree with M.Keen: We (I myself included) need to learn how to truly and deeply think generationally. More than M. Keen, I believe God wants us to think about the next Generation.  In the ways that we use our gifts, talents,opportunities,energy,relationship, and every resources that God has entrusted us with. We should not base our every choice and agreements on our selfish feelings and short terms visions but on God's very words. Though I am not always fully conscious of this very fact, the truth is that every choice I make today and the way I chose to live my life will effect someone or more down the line.

Children are precious gifts from God himself, they bring joy and light to a dark and  gloomy world, but the truth is they will not be children forever. Instead of working so hard trying to invest into castle sands and aiming for plastic trophies I thought it's time that my focus (our focus) changes to what is real and truly matters.
Taking a chance to invest in lives. whether small or big. young or old. I need to be apart of somebody's else' story.
I am who I am and where I am today because God used all types of people to step in to my life one way or another. Some sowed good and some sowed bad, but in all God used all that to mold and discipline me for the good. The point is: someone took time to do something in hope that it will continue throughout  and that it will be useful in order to change another life as it did in theirs and mine.
Yes our trophies maybe trashed and our names my not be remember at all, but what we chose to sow today in the name of Jesus Christ could be an investment for eternity.
And the best place and time to start is when they are still young, Child at heart, teachable, and imitators of us. One thing I have deeply learned to appreciate is that: Nothing worth having comes easy and in order to reap a great harvest one must be willing to put in everything. There is not time for foolishness. There is not time for making selfish choices. There is not time to take the easy route. You want to make a great investment? invest into someone's life for eternity and for the sake of the upcoming generation, so that the truth about God can be known all throughout generations.