NOTE: My dear friend Vincent Zgambo features on the blog today. The write up was initially posted on his facebook page and he was kind enough to let me post it on the blog and I simply added a biblical solution to the problem he addresses. Vincent, thank you very much man!
Those 70 kids didn't go to the
party that night. We did (meaning the society). Children don't do sex parties.
They are children! Right? Right?! That sex party is not even the problem, it is
the belated result of a moral decay that has been growing with time. It's not
sex they were after. It's meaning, it's identity, it's a sense of belonging;
they were searching for themselves. The party is just a tip of the iceberg. The
iceberg is us. It is an indictment of the 21st century parent. The parent who
won't allow their child to 'suffer' because they themselves suffered (by
suffering meaning learning the principals of hard work and that life does not
come on a silver platter).
Children are a product of their
society. They mirror their environment. They become what they see. Those kids
are a product of broken homes and absent fathers. Parents who gave them
everything they wanted, but nothing they needed. Parents who were chasing a
dream while unwittingly breeding a generational nightmare. Busy parents.
Parents who are busy building houses while neglecting their homes; who have
time to chat and debate on social media but not to talk to their children.
Parents who can no longer take their children to Sunday school because they either
have golf with 'the boys' or are nursing a hangover. Parents who're chasing
after contracts and promotions while losing touch of their homes. Parents
who'll soon realise they didn't raise children, they raised strangers. While we
take our children to expensive schools and pay for tuition, we're churning out
intellectuals without morals.
We gave our children their names
now we want to call them lost? We are looking for values in our children that
they were never taught, we're expecting them to live by morals they don't see.
We have no idea what they read, what they watch and who their friends are.
Their heroes are celebrities who glorify sex and to whom Jesus Christ is merely
an exclamation.
We have sacrificed our own
children on the altar of modernity. We have fanned the flame with vanity, with
logs of narcissism. And now we stand by watching with hollow hearts and
exaggerated grief at the embers of our handiwork. Next time we look in the
mirror, we should hang our heads in collective shame. Shame.
More specifically the state of
the family is a huge indictment on men- husbands and fathers. The men who are
meant to be leaders and spiritual guides are generally spoilt, greedy for
money, entertainment driven, gadget acquiring over grown children. Gone are the
days when the men where the spiritual fortresses of the homes, churches and
nations. The women on the other hand are generally known for either their
slanderous, malicious speech, their immoral behavior, dressing (or lack of), or
simply their career advancement (nothing wrong with it) rather than their godly
character and faithfulness to whatever God has called them to. The effect are
children who are a product of the television and social media and families in
disarray. Whenever Christians let the world tell them how they should do what
God instituted the results are disastrous.
What is the solution?
The Lord through Moses instructed
the children before entering the Promised Land on how they should live and he
gives them principals for families.
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our
God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you
today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children,
and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the
way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on
your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write
them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Remember there is only one true God
Knowing that they are entering a
land where the people had gods for everything, the Lord reminds them that He is
God who is everything, he is God all by himself. Therefore God should be number
one and main priority. The worship of other gods is ongoing and we equally have
plenty of gods usurping the almighty God’s place in our lives. You have the
entertainment god (movies, sports, music, and games), the education god, the
relationship god, the material things god etc. Hear O people the Lord our God,
the Lord is one!
Love the one true God like no other
We are naturally a self-centered
people that life easily becomes about us. This is so evident in our
relationships. We have believed the lie that other people exist for us and our
happiness. And we have falsely believed that we are the center and focus of the
world, taking the place of God. People who get in a relationship convince
themselves that life would be better if they just ran away to some far place
just the two of them and live happily ever after. Just as husband and wife
convince themselves that if their spouse simply loved or cared for them they
would be happy. The Lord says we should have one focus and priority in life to
passionately and whole heartedly love the Lord. Any time I am more committed,
focused and dedicated to something else other than God then I have an idol.
Teach and obey the word of God
The third principle of a biblical
family is that they will be teaching and obeying the word of God. Every
Christian home should be bible school in the sense that they study the bible
and live it out. The Christians home should be an embassy of God’s kingdom as
it were. Everything done in that home is guided by the principles of the word
of God.
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