Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
David Wilkerson, the author of The Switchblade and the Cross and the founder of Teen Challenge, was a modern-day prophet who died in a car accident on the plains of Texas nine years ago. I have a book of 365 selections from his writings, entitled GOD IS FAITHFUL that I use for one of my daily devotions. This entry is from the December 3 selection called “The Blink Generation.”
“Many Christians read the Bible regularly, believing it is God’s living, revealed Word for their lives. Over and over…they read that God spoke to His people again and again, with this phrase repeated time after time: ‘And God said…’
“Yet many of these same Christians live as though God does not speak to His people today. Indeed, an entire generation of believers has come to make decisions without praying or consulting God’s Word. Many simply decide what they want to do, then ask God to validate it.
“We are living in a time referred to as the ‘blink generation.’ People are making major decisions in the blink of an eye…
“Just a few years ago, the watchword among Christians was, ‘Did you pray about it? Have you sought godly counsel?’ How many important decisions have you made ‘in the blink of an eye’ recently? The reason God wants full control of our lives is to save us from disasters – which is exactly where most of our ‘blink decisions’ take us.”