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Millennials
Why Satan’s Grip on Millennials Is Slipping
Tom Phillips
"For the Son of Man has come to seek
and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10).
Many Millennials
today find themselves living among tombs—tombs of drugs, sex, alcohol, cutting
and death.
Jesus
met a Gadarene man who was living in a similar graveyard 2,000 years ago: "Always,
night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting
himself with stones" (Mark 5:5).
This Gadarene man
did not just live among death; he sought death, and no one could keep him from
it.
"He lived
among the tombs. And no one could constrain him, not even with chains, because
he had often been bound with shackles and chains. But he had pulled the chains
apart and broken the shackles to pieces. And no one could subdue him" (Mark 5:3-4).
Millennials who
live in graveyards are pulling apart the chains of traditions that try to hide
the tombs. They are breaking the shackles of structures that try to cover the
pain.
They
are seeking truth. "For nothing is secret that will
not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and revealed"
(Luke
8:17).
Millennials want
to face the truth of brokenness, pain, and death in a way that few generations
before ever have.
Piercings
and tattoos tell their stories. They are crying out as David did, "For
I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. I am gone like a
shadow in the evening; I am tossed as the locust" (Psalm 109:22-23).
But God is using
Millennial's willingness to face the reality of darkness to place them in a
position to become even more receptive to light.
The darkness
contrasts with the light and makes the light seem brighter.
"For God, who
commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ" (2 Corinthians 4:6).
God is good at
bringing light out of darkness. The first thing He did at the beginning of
creation was turn darkness into light.
"The earth
was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the
Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water. God said, 'Let
there be light,' and there was light"
(Genesis
1:2-3).
God always speaks
light in the midst of darkness. He is even now speaking light over Millennials
who live among tombs.
"The people
who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwell in
the land of the shadow of death, upon them the light has shined" (Isaiah 9:2).
Jesus is searching
the graveyards for Millennials – the point of Jesus-Now Awakening. The Father
is seeking all of His children.
"For the Son
of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost"
(Luke
19:10).
Jesus sought and
saved the Gadarene man out of his graveyard, and directed him to share what the
Lord had done for him.
"But when he
saw Jesus afar off, he ran up and kneeled before Him. ... Jesus did not let
him, but said to him, 'Go home to your friends and tell them what great
things the Lord has done for you and how He has had compassion on you.' So
he departed and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what great things Jesus
had done for him. And everyone was amazed" (Mark 5:6, 19-20).
God forms each
child He saves from life among the tombs into a pinprick of light for the
world.
Millennials who
used to live in graveyards are to grow into leadership, the light-bearers of a
new beginning.
"No one, when
he lights a candle, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it
on a candlestick, that those who enter may see the light"
(Luke
8:16).
As pinpricks of
light, we are each designed to be proclaimers of the truth, which sets others
free who are still living among tombs.
"But you are
a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own
possession, so that you may declare the goodness of Him who has called you out
of darkness into His marvelous light"
(1 Peter
2:9).
Will you be the
pinprick of light the Lord is forming you into in this Jesus-Now Awakening?
Do you want to
know how to leave your dwelling in the tombs behind?
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