Aprendizaje intencional

The world has seen a lot of changes, many dramatic and some far reaching. A lot of what we take for granted today were often times unknown yesterday. From inventions like the motor vehicle, telephone, television, and satellite to innovations like vaccines, independence of nation-states, and university education, someone had to pay the price for us to enjoy it the way we do. Most of those that did were elderly people that had tirelessly worked for long years to be able to birth something

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new and useful to mankind. We all owe them and God a lot of gratitude for their persistence and creativity. They have been so useful to all of us.

Well, this persistent creativity goes on. Fortunately for us, life can always get better and the best is yet to come. That means that there is still more room for human achievement and progress. In fact if the truth were told, we would find that there is still a lot of room. The prospect for revolution is still as possible today as it was yesterday. To be sure, there are even more prospects today than there has ever been. The scripture promises so when it declares that knowledge shall increase in the last days (Daniel 12:4). And the vanguard of today’s revolution is our young people. Young people will herald the next invention; they will lead the next innovation. The baton of progress and excellence has switched from the old mentor to the young enthusiast.

Part of the reason has to do with the fact that neither inventions nor innovations are taking as long today as they did yesterday.

The build up of knowledge has allowed sufficient speed at doing something new. However, the spiritual insight to this is of course the return of the Lord. Because the Lord is coming so soon, there seems to be a heightened sense of preparation in all activities of man as though creation is at work to set every thing right before its maker returns to live on the earth for a thousand years.

In this speed of knowledge and advancement, God has selected that the young people should be today’s revolutionary leaders.

Watch it: Presidents and Prime Ministers are going to get younger, CEOs and Executive Directors are going to get younger, leading scientists, politicians, dramatists, musicians, and ministers are going to get younger and younger. Perhaps this captures what Jesus prophesied when HE said that the last

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shall be the first and the first shall be the last (Matthew 20:16).

Things are going to fall in the hands of young people as the grace of God mantles them to seize the hour of the last days.

What does this mean? It means that young people cannot and should not be ignored. They are this generation’s most valuable asset. They are most useful and how we address their worth will determine how well we will do. It is important that we wake up to this development. Young people are no longer tomorrow’s leaders. They are today’s leaders. God is doing a quick thing and equipping the youth with the necessary knowledge and ability to master this change. All young people should stop being so far sighted thinking of some time in the long future when they will be useful and realize that this is their hour. God has mandated from heaven that they should be the masters of this age.

What is more is that they will take charge in a superior fashion than has ever been witnessed before. They will not be obvious any longer as God’s glory will make them amazing to all who behold them. Now, I am not just prophesying for all young people as it were. Not all have been prepared for such a time as this. Some still see themselves in a negative light. Many still allow years of neglect and abuse to lower their self-worth. And many others are still playing games, unaware of the gross responsibility that has befallen their generation.

No, I am talking to those who have found the truth: Those that have awakened to their call, their destiny and have disciplined themselves to ensure that they rise to the occasion. This kind is the one I am looking at: They will deliver men from captivities that many had grown accustomed to and pave way to a future hitherto unthinkable to men. God has mandated them to level the human experience to a measure that will prepare men to receive the Lord. In this regard, today’s revolution is not merely

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a secular one separate as it were from a spiritual one. There is going to be a merging of the secular and spiritual in such fashion that more than in any other time, men shall be gloriously enlightened regarding the glory of their God. Our young people will usher the return of our Lord and mankind is blessed to have them around. They are not today’s burden, they are today’s answer!

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