Generation X

What is Generation X? People don’t know what will become of us, I think we’ve proved that Generation X is filled with Intellectuality and knowledge. We have come to a point in time where we know so much and are in tune to a million things all at the same time. We indulge in the humor of ‘inside jokes’ that only other intellectuals can perceive. We’ve become so knowledgeable, and nothing stuns us anymore. We have become immune to shock. So why believe in the unknown like a God? We can’t explain it, we can’t grasp the nonsense we think is in religion, let alone in this Christianity we think is foolish. We believe in what we see and can explain. We’re basically too smart for a higher power.

“The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Whose habitation is high; You who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’ Though you ascend as high as the eagle, And though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down, says the LORD.” Obadiah 3-4

We have failed to consider the virtues of humility. Why do we have to be in competition with others? From the doctors that have cable set up in their offices just to set the TV on Bloomberg Television to the kids in High School that have to have the latest popular song as their Ringback tone. We’ve generated such peer pressure that it not only exists in teens, but rather is taking over the adults as well. We feel smart by watching AC360 and including it in the watercooler conversations with our coworkers. And politics? whoa, now there was the top intellectual conversation booster…you knew you were out of the loop if you weren’t well versed in the latest political details. Where is our pride? Where stands our integrity? Humility and the wisdom in knowing when to shut up is being ignored and lost. One of my favorite quotes is:

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt”

Some intellectuals are adamant in their ideas as to who’s quote this is, Abraham Lincoln? Mark Twain? King Leonidas of Sparta who died at the

Battle of Thermopylae? Actually, the quote has been derived through the years from the book of

Proverbs:

“Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; When he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive.” Proverbs 17:28

I believe that true Wisdom comes to those that honor God, and those that live in constant humility.