Our Society

So many days I look around and see what our world looks like today compared to when I was little and growing up. It is a scarier world with so many temptations for our children. We did not have the internet or 200 channels on TV. We might have had 8 or 9 channels and if you positioned the antennae just right you might be able to get in a couple of other stations. Instead of spending hours on the internet, we came home from school, did our homework and went out to play with our friends, who were our neighbors.

Now kids spend hours and hours watching TV and going on the internet. The content is eroded of what is offered on TV now and is not really what we want our kids to be watching. Some of it is the parent’s faults for what they allow. Some parents now days do not want to raise their kids, they let the media and others do that. The kids see something on TV and think it is ok for them to behave that way. We were taught when we were young that TV is make believe and we should not be acting out what we see on TV. Kids are not always taught that now, especially since the advent of so many reality shows. The internet is another very dangerous place, you try to screen what they can see, but then they go to a friends house that is not screened and you have no control. When we were told to do something or to complete chores, we did it or we suffered the consequences. Now the so called experts want you to be gentile with your kids, they want to tell you how to raise your children, they think their way is best.

So let’s see how their way is best. Over the last 10 or 15 years since they have started instituting all these programs and rules for raising your children what has happened. The crime rate among younger children ages 10 – 14 has almost doubled. While the teen pregnancy rate among 16 – 18 year olds has slightly declined, the pregnancy rate among 12 – 14 year olds has sharply increased. We are supposed to believe what social service programs across the country are doing and instituting and trying to tell everyone is better is working? Do you see this? The many people I have talked to don’t see how things are better and they believe that until we go back to a more firm form of discipline that things will only get worse. I am not saying that you need to spank your children, but there needs to be discipline at an early stage in life. You must remember that there is a difference between a spanking and abuse if that is the route you have chosen. Be careful not to cross this line. Anger should never drive your actions. The Bible tells us that we can not spare the rod. So is God’s word correct, is God lying to us – can anyone at any level of our government look you in the eye and say God has lied to us? If so, then we have allowed the Devil to start a take over of our government officials. We should rethink our voting habits and put Christians back in office.

As far as teaching your children, you need to teach them about love and hate about right and wrong at an early age. Believe it or not there are still many places in this country where very prejudiced people still live, some are not far from our Nations Capital. What we need to understand is that children are not born with hate and prejudice; they learn it from adults who teach them that. I have never hated anyone in my life and people have done some harsh things, said some hurtful things and gone out of their way to do these things to me. I am not a judge of these people; God in Heaven will judge them when their time comes. You see if you die hating someone and never went to them to ask their forgiveness for your hate, the Bible says you can not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Do you want to risk eternal damnation for your hateful heart and prejudice? Do you want your children to follow this course of action also? By teaching these behaviors you are leading them down the devils path. Teach your children God’s way and when they speak tell them to look the person they are speaking to in the eye. If you can not look me in the eye when you speak to me, you are hiding something; maybe hiding the devil inside, knowing what you have to say to me is not the truth but the ways of the devil.

It is not for you to judge your neighbor, your friend or anyone, if you have not ever sinned, you may cast the first stone. So if you ever told a lie, ever talked back to or disobeyed your parents commands or ever even sworn or cussed, you have sinned just as great a sin as the person who might have committed murder – this is how the Bible sees sin. Sin is sin and you must ask forgiveness of the person you sinned against and ask forgiveness of God to get into Heaven. If your actions have hurt someone and caused them to be punished because of lies you told, you must ask for forgiveness from that person. What else is important is that you must also learn to forgive, because if you can not forgive, you can not enter into God’s Kingdom either. God has commanded us to love our neighbor and love our enemy. If we love everyone, we have no enemies. These are things we should teach our children, teachings that God gave to us to guide us and raise our families in His Light.

I do not hate anyone and have never hated anyone. There are people I do not associate with because of their behavior and their actions, but I do not hate them. If anything I pray for them that God will show them the Light and open their eyes one day so that they may have the opportunity to enter into Heaven. Life is too short to fill your heart with hate and spite. There are better things you can do with your time and with your life. All that hate ages you and causes stress. God is loving, caring and forgiving. We should seek him out in times of despair and we should teach our children this also. Our Country was founded on Religious beliefs in Christianity whether you like it or not. If we want to change the behavior of or children we need to change it by looking to the Bible and to God for answers, not to special interest groups or other people. God commands us to come to him and He will guide us.

When you look at the statistics of what is going on with our children in our current society do you really want to trust someone else to tell you how to raise your children? Many of these people have never had children of their own they are very young and have not yet experienced life. Ask how many of them read their Bibles each day or even how many times they have picked it up and opened it in the past year. We must go back to our Christian principles in order to get this country going in the right direction again and it starts with our children. Again – My Explosion of Thought!