What has the pandemic taught me?
On a daily basis I hear that we should do this or that because the kids of today have lost so much already.
But have they?
Each generation has faced its own unique set of circumstances. There are shifts in fashion, politics, music, entertainment. technology, lifestyle, transportation, sports, food, jobs, responsibilities, and the list goes on and on. Heroes are born, icons die. Like the sands shifting in the desert, the landscape is forever changing.
I wonder what the parents said as the Hebrew children wandered the wilderness for decades. Or what about the children coming to America for the very first time? There are the war babies and the survivors of numerous natural disasters.
The world we are in is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it is the world we are in. It is the world that God gave us.
I love to hunt, but wouldn’t want my family to depend on my skill as a hunter to bring home dinner. I love to build, but could not imagine the age of Westward expansion building a house of sod in the prairie or a log cabin in the woods. I love to garden, but the idea of planting, harvesting, storing and preserving enough to sustain my family for the year is a thought that is insurmountable to me.
The one constant through each of these generations is that God has been, is now, and forever will be with us in the day-to-day events that we call life. Hebrews 13:8 tells us that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. He promises repeatedly that He will never leave us nor forsake us and we should not be afraid. I Corinthians 10:13 He promises to never give us more than we can handle.
So rest assured that whatever happens, this next generation can and will handle it. The day will come when they will write books about, make movies about it and tell their grandchildren stories about the good old days. “When I was your age…” It is going to be okay. “Trust in God with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding” Proverbs 3:5.