Our Young People Are in Real Trouble

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I was watching the news in Alabama. We had 15 people killed in a wild, wild west-style shoot-out in downtown Montgomery. A father-in-law drove all the way to north Alabama from the coast to shoot his son-in-law. Children were locked in a bunker in Bibb County, Alabama, while adults paid to do horrible acts to them (including their parents). This is Alabama….the Bible Belt.

These cases are just the tip of the iceberg. Pornography is available everywhere. Children are being raised by the internet, TV, and games like GTA. Schools and colleges have let our children and young folks down with anti-Christian propaganda disguised as education. Congressmen are fighting like children on a playground. What an example that sends! Even our churches are letting us down.

Think about the young guy who shot Charlie Kirk; he was 22, I think. All that hate in a young person that he would trade his life to kill a nice guy who was respectful and just wanted to talk. The young guy who tried to kill Trump in Pennsylvania (he did kill a fellow there). Almost identical to the Kirk shooting.

While it’s really nothing new for a President to be shot (Andrew Jackson, Lincoln, McKinley, JFK, Teddy Roosevelt, Reagan, and Trump were all shot ). Today it’s just different. The condemnation is not there like it was. A young woman lost her job over posting a message saying Kirk got what he had coming; she started a GoFundMe and had $6,000 after the first day. It almost pays to support this kind of behavior.

I’m not sure we are not coming to the point of no return. We have become worse than Sodom and Gomorrah ever thought of being. We need lots of prayer and real Christians to stand up to the moral decay in America today.

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You’re right…we’re watching Romans 1 unfold before our eyes. But God hasn’t called us to panic. He’s called us to persevere. Let’s pray, stay grounded in truth, and keep teaching the next generation what’s righteous and eternal.

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When Adam and Eve chose to take a path away from God, human nature devolved into selfishness and self-indigence. God cursed the ground not so much for punishment, but to make difficult enough so that we would work together in spite of our selfish natures. Instead man’s thoughts were evil continuously.

After the flood things were much more difficult. It was dealing with this much physical difficulty that we were able to receive some information about God and be interested in him. However, with the Industrial revolution, life became easier again until know when people are begining to be ike just before the flood.

In particular, family has been destroyed such that children are seldom being born any more and people are not even bothering to marry. As a result children do not get their culture and knowledge of the world from their parents and grandparents as much as they do from their peers, TV, and pubic school.

Why would anyone expect the unsaved to act any differently? Satan sets the course of this world for now. He has crippled churches and blinds the minds of the unsaved.

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agreed. the biggest shield of defense is that of being a parent to one of these kids. unfortunately many adults are part of the problem and thus dont shield their kids, then bemoan how they turn out, blaming “teenagehood” and stuff as an excuse for it. i remember clearly why i fell away from grace when i was young. i felt emotionally abandoned by mom and dad, and sought the world’s way of solving my problem, causing long-term griefs and trials that never had to happen.

in conclusion i blame not the world, but the broken parents who failed to simply be there with their kids. like REALLY be there, and not just supply material needs.

id heard the Word. i grew up in church. parents didnt really seem to believe. we stopped going to church. we had the internet and tv and our parents didnt seem to fathom- or explore- the dangers therein. they worked their butts off for paychecks, and practically ignored us when we hinted the need for inner help. they didnt know how to help. so, in a way i dont really blame them, either.

i see huge opportunity to prevent decay and debilitating heartache. most parents miss the boat even if they love their children very much.

regardless of the broken world, parents can always turn and give a verbal example of righteousness. “that was really messed up. what do you think could have happened instead? what could have been done differently?”

instead parents dont usually take time for that kind of talk.

parents make the difference between Godly living and sinful living. most get too caught up in the world to do that, though.

so, yeah. im less concerned with the ugly world than i am with the reaction of the parents. are they a shield, a loving buffer? or do they practically just let the wolves get to their children?

its a test. do we blame the world, or take matters into our own hands, and inspire our kids to be set apart from it?

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I grew up in a house pretty much like the Cleavers in Leave it to Beaver. I was raised by my grandparents and I think it was a great upbringing. We were in church every Sunday. Today I am extremely old-fashioned and traditional. I know people put that type of life down, but I think we need a lot more of that kind of child-rearing. I had two shotguns at 12 and never even considered shooting someone.

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The state of our temporal world gives more room for our faith to be sharpened, for our Hope in our Lord to be tried and tested true.
“For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”
Romans 8:24-25
Now you can even say that this indeed is another work of patience hinted at in James.
“Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” James 1:3-4
The Lord will exercise the fullness of His grace and strength to save the one sheep that had gone astray. No matter how blind, deaf, dumb, or otherwise deceived that sheep may or may not be. Yes the state of things are concerning, the evidence of our eyes will show that all is lost, the world wishes us to believe that Evil abounds more than His goodness.
If its any consolation, I’m 25, I came out of a dark place of witchcraft, drug abuse, fornications, and the like, I had even renounced God an recited some dark dark stuff that should have left me lost and forsaken in the darkest pit for all of eternity. He saved me, he wrought on me with His light, He took my soiled, soured, hardened heart, and showed me that very truly, anyone can be saved. If they will have it that they be saved, they will be saved. I was in a state that i didn’t know that I even needed to be saved, I never understood the necessity of salvation. HE showed me, He showed me the recompense for walking the path I had chosen, He opened my eyes and ears as soon as I opened but the tiniest crack in the door for Him. I believe that they will all be saved, and it is by His grace that each and every one will be different, all unique paths leading up to their salvation.
May your peace and your blessings be multiplied,
Sincerely,
G

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Satan needed a relatively stable society in order to develop the technology he would need to make his move to take over the world. Now that the tools are almost all in place, he needs to weaken us or have us destroy ourselves so that we couldn’t rise up in opposition to his plans.

Part of his plan to have us destroy ourselves is to create an environment of unprecedented self-indulgence to which young people are particularly vulnerable.