You show unfailing love to thousands, but you also bring the consequences of one generation’s sin upon the next. (Jeremiah 32:17)It is a fact that what we do impacts our children. And that works both ways, good or bad.
My parents generation, what we call the Greatest Generation gave us a good life. They worked hard and saved their money. They sent us to school and did just about everything they could do to help us.
And above all, despite opinions to the contrary, they were for the most part a moral and godly generation. Church attendance was high, we were expected by both them and society at large to behave. It had its problems, but in general it was a good country.
But then my generation came along and challenged all of those values. And our children suffer for it.
It seemed like a good time at the time, but it turned out to not be. In challenging everything our generation stood for, we changed society and we changed our country. We went from being a godly country, One nation under God, to being a country with a lot of self-inflicted problems.
We went from a school system that accomplished something to one that is virtually worthless. We have a society that is in deep and serious trouble. Our children no longer have a society approved moral compass. Our cute little rebellion hurt our children in ways that we will not truly know for years.
What one generation does affects the next. If it is a good generation and does good things, the next generation will benefit. If it is a bad generation and tears down more than it builds, the next generation will be hurt.
God allows us to make our own history. And when we write the history of they baby-boomer generation, it will not be a flattering one.
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