Faith responsible for “Greatest Generation”

Did Tom Brokaw get it right when he called his and my generation the “Greatest Generation?” If he did, what makes those mid-1900s years greater than those that we are living in today? Is Brokaw suggesting that our country was at its zenith in the 1950s and that America has over the last several decades become a degenerating society. Those of us who were born before the 1940s have both witnessed and participated in the moral decline of the American conscience. Many stood by while evolutionists declared that evolving humanity was gradually freeing itself from animalistic brutalities. We listened to aesthetic and humanistic intellectuals, so called, declaring that sin is not really the evil thing which it was once thought to be. All the while, our conscience kept on telling us with unsilenceable authority that sin in God’s sight is truly sin. The Holy Bible declares that the only remedy for sin is a savior. Sin is everyone’s malady. What a tragedy. Desperately, but futilely, we may try to save ourselves.

“The angel said to them, I bring you good news, the savior, yes the messiah, the lord, has been born today in Bethlehem” Luke 2:10-11. God the father gave us Jesus to become one with us through his incarnation; He gave Jesus to us to become one of us, so that he might offer up from within humanity, on everyone’s behalf, a perfectly sinless life as a sacrifice for all sin.

Jesus is no longer the baby in the manger. He is no longer the boy in the carpenter’s shop. He is no longer the young prophet of Galilee. He is no longer on the cross or in the grave. He is the living and ever-contemporary savior who right now knocks at the life door of every unbeliever, saying, “hello there, hello there, it’s me, Jesus, knocking on your door, please, invite me in.”

Merry Christmas.

– Harvey Town