If this isn't the generation Jesus is to come back, then I plead for the generation to have a new hero rise up. Not a replacement by any means, but someone to help guide our ever-wandering ways back to you, for our own ways have become nothing short of a meaningless labyrinth. We have come to believe men are the root of evil yet still ignore women. We believe we can praise men dressing as women who violently beat actual women and call them "great athletes" yet ignore our hypocrisy at grinding our teeth against wife and girlfriend beaters. We've stopped believing children are your blessing yet protect them only when convicted sex offenders can tell them stories in public places. We have no problem listening to heretics and swindlers and raise hackles to sound truth, especially if it gets in the way of our profits, of which we're fine with illicit ways.
As your theologian Lewis said, we laugh at virtue yet are shocked by treachery from within. This is no less true today than in his time. No, it seems exponentially truer than ever, for honor is a shock factor in our culture, a slap in the face of the indecency we face every day and accept as normal, believing nothing will change it. We show no regret nor shame in our defiance against ideals and virtues that, even if we didn't acknowledge you deigned them, we used to "pretend" they upheld our society and kept things in order. Now, we're so skeptical, we become skeptical against those who show kindness for no reason other than to show it at all.
I desperately plead, if Jesus is not to come again soon, for a hero in our age who eyes is on you.
