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Generation

By Hannah Kerr

1,192 views Sep 14, 2026 updated I Stand Here - EP album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Hannah Kerr writes directly to listeners who've been told they're too young to matter — "don't let anyone look down on you 'cause you're young," she opens, refusing to let age be the disqualifier some might expect it to be. The verse doesn't soften the discouragement she's responding to; it names it outright before answering it.

Her vision for that generation is specific rather than vague inspiration: "pointing the way to the cross," "standing on shoulders of all those before us," and loving "like He loves." Kerr frames faith as something inherited and then extended, not invented from scratch by each new group of believers.

Paul tells Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:12 not to let anyone look down on him for his youth, but to be an example instead, and Psalm 145:4 pictures one generation declaring God's works to the next. Kerr's repeated prayer — "God, make us new, open our hearts, Lord, and fill us with truth" — asks for exactly that kind of handoff to keep happening through her own generation.

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

[Verse 1]

Don't let anyone look down on you 'cause you're young

God has a purpose, and you were created to love

Whatever you do, don't let anyone look down on you

Look down on you 'cause you're young

Don't let anyone ever tell you "you can't"

You serve a Savior who's holding the world in His hands

Oh, keep pressing through

Don't let anyone ever tell you, ever tell you that you can't


[Chorus]

Let us be a generation (Oh)

Pointing the way to the cross

Let us be a generation (Oh)

Standing on shoulders of all those before us

And oh, you're never too young, oh, to follow Jesus

I believe we can be a generation that loves like He loves (Oh)


[Verse 2]

In every moment, let this be the prayer that we pray

Giving You glory by giving our lives away

Oh, God, make us new, open our hearts, Lord, and fill us with truth

Let this be the prayer that we pray


[Chorus]

Let us be a generation (Oh)

Pointing the way to the cross

Let us be a generation (Oh)

Standing on shoulders of all those before us

And oh, you're never too young, oh, to follow Jesus

I believe we can be a generation that loves like He loves


[Verse 3]

Loves like He loves

Loves like He loves

Loves like He loves


[Chorus]

Let us be a generation (Oh)

Pointing the way to the cross

Let us be a generation (Oh)

Standing on shoulders of all those before us

And oh, you're never too young, oh, to follow Jesus

I believe we can be a generation that loves like He loves


[Verse 4]

Loves like He loves

Loves like He loves

Loves


[Verse 5]

Don't let anyone look down on you 'cause you're young

God has a purpose, and you were created...to love

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