Is This the Generation That Will Seek the Lord?

Throughout Scripture, God does not merely deal with individuals; He also deals with generations. There are generations that seek God and there are also generations that harden their hearts and miss their moment of divine visitation.

Consequently, perhaps one of the most important questions we can ask today is not merely, “Am I seeking the Lord?” but “What kind of generation are we becoming?”

1. God Is Looking for a Generation That Will Seek His Face

Psalm 24:3–6 asks:

“Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place?”

The answer includes those with clean hands and pure hearts. Then comes this remarkable statement:

“Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.”

Notice that Scripture doesn’t merely describe an individual seeking God. It describes a generation.

Every generation becomes known for something. Some are remembered for wars, others for scientific discoveries, economic expansion, or cultural revolution.

Our present generation could be remembered primarily for smartphones, social media, artificial intelligence, and unprecedented technological advancement.

But what if heaven gives them another description?

“This is the generation of those who seek Him.”

2. We Have Seen God Capture a Generation Before

Many people looking at American youth culture during the late 1960s would never have predicted spiritual awakening.

The sexual revolution was accelerating. Drug experimentation was spreading. Then something remarkable happened.

Jesus invaded the counterculture.

Beginning in the late 1960s and spreading nationally in the early 1970s, what became known as the Jesus Movement swept through large numbers of young people.

Hippies came to Christ. Young people abandoned drugs, sexual promiscuity, occultism, and Eastern mysticism. Bible studies, Christian communes, coffeehouses, street evangelism, contemporary worship, and mass baptisms appeared across the country. Christianity Today, reporting on the phenomenon at the time, described “vast numbers” of young Americans embracing Christ. (Christianity Today⁠)

Consequently, the generation many churches didn’t know how to reach became fertile soil for spiritual awakening.

Never judge a generation merely by what it looks like before God gets hold of it.

3. God Can Create a People Who Do Not Yet Exist

Psalm 102:18 makes an extraordinary statement:

“Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD.”

Think about that phrase:

“A people yet to be created.”

The Psalmist was writing for people who didn’t even exist yet.

That means we should never look at the present spiritual condition of young people and assume their present condition determines their future.

The hippies of the 1960s didn’t look like candidates for revival.But God saw worshipers, evangelists and church planters

Perhaps we need to look at Gen Z through the same eyes of faith.

4. Something Significant Is Happening Among Gen Z

For years we heard that young Americans were abandoning Christianity and that churches were increasingly populated by older generations.

However, recent research has revealed an interesting shift.

Barna reported in 2025 that among Christian churchgoers, Gen Z and Millennials were attending church more frequently than older generations—reversing a long-established pattern. Gen Z churchgoers averaged 1.9 weekends per month, Millennials 1.8, compared with 1.6 among churched adults overall. (Barna Group⁠)

The trend appears to extend beyond merely showing up. In 2026, 45 percent of Protestant senior pastors surveyed by Barna reported increased engagement among Gen Z in their congregations. (Barna Group⁠)

We shouldn’t prematurely call every increase in church attendance a revival. Nevertheless, something worthy of our attention appears to be happening.

Could spiritual hunger be increasing?

5. Entire Generations Have Also Missed God

Scripture gives us another side to this story.

Psalm 95 describes the generation that came out of Egypt:

“Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

God says:

“For forty years I loathed that generation.”

Hebrews 3 and 4 applies this warning directly to God’s people.

That generation saw extraordinary miracles. Yet Hebrews 3:19 says:

“They were unable to enter because of unbelief.”

Imagine that.

A generation can experience miracles without developing faith.

Every generation has moments when God is calling.

The question is whether that generation will recognize its moment.

6. Another Generation Saw Messiah and Rejected Him

Centuries later another generation received an even greater visitation.

Jesus Christ Himself walked among them.

They heard the Sermon on the Mount. They saw blind eyes opened, lepers cleansed, demons cast out, and even the dead raised.

Yet many rejected Him.

Jesus declared in Matthew 23:36:

“Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.”

He then lamented over Jerusalem:

“How often would I have gathered your children together… and you were not willing!”

Their tragedy was not the absence of divine visitation.

Their tragedy was failing to recognize and respond to their visitation.

Jesus subsequently warned in Matthew 24 of the coming judgment upon Jerusalem. Within that first-century context, Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed by the Romans in AD 70.

One generation saw Messiah and missed its moment.

7. Our Assignment Is to Prepare the Next Generation

Psalm 78 tells us that God’s works must be declared:

“That the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn… so that they should set their hope in God.”

This is where my generation has an enormous responsibility.

We cannot merely criticize the next generation.

We must disciple them.

Psalm 145:4 says:

“One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.”

We must tell them what God has done. We must tell them about previous awakenings. We should tell them about the Jesus Movement and other great moves of God.

But we cannot merely give them stories about yesterday.

We must prepare them to encounter God today.

Is This the Greatest Generation That Will Seek the Lord?

Psalm 22 begins prophetically with the suffering Messiah but it ends with worldwide worship:

“All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD.”

Then it declares:

“Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation.”

Psalm 24 describes “the generation of those who seek Him.”

Psalm 78 describes a generation that sets its hope in God.

Psalm 102 describes “a people yet to be created” who will praise the Lord.

Perhaps these passages should shape the way we view this present moment.

We cannot predict what Gen Z, Gens Alpha and Beta will ultimately become. But we can pray and invest in them toward a spiritual awakening.

Imagine another Jesus Revolution—but this time accelerated globally through technology, travel, and unprecedented communication.

Perhaps the question is no longer merely:

“Is this the generation that will seek the Lord?”

Perhaps we should dare to ask:

“Could this become the greatest generation that will seek the Lord?”

May we give the rest of our lives to helping make Psalm 24 a reality:

“This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.”