Fifty years ago was 1954. Sixty years ago was 1944. The parents had been through a great depression and the battles and rationing of WWII. We have no idea the trials they endured. Can we even imagine running out of ration stamps and having to barter for sugar, coffee, gasoline. Can we imagine to not be able to buy a new tire?
Marriage was a sacred covenant, not entered into lightly, or without pre-marital counseling. Divorce had a stigma attached and a child born out of wedlock was illegitimate.
The majority of children were born to two parents, who bore the battle-scars of the previous two decades.
Today single parent households are normal, and the moral example of a Father and a Mother has been taken-over by the idiot-box god in the front-room, where little girls cavort as prostitutes and little boys seek drunken debauchery as they party with scarlet women.
In 1954 a Christian dressed modestly, and would not be found buying liquor, or frequenting the neighborhood bar. A girl who called a boy was considered forward, and a boy would have to meet the parents before he would be allowed to date the daughter. There would be no car dates before the age of 16, and both the boy and girl were under strict curfew. A kiss was a major intimacy, and those girls who would go further than 1st base were loose.
Today it has become difficult to tell the Christian from the world. We are far into the “Now” generation. The demand for instant gratification supercedes all wisdom. We demand instant intimacy with our instant coffee, serial monogamy with our disposable diapers. Little girls dress as Britney/Madonna, and look like little Pop Tarts. Little boys dress like M&M and look like little rapper thugs. The gilded idol in the front room delivers sex, perversion, and debauchery sandwiched between commercials for a safer and more satisfying hedonism.
Today the sperm-donor may be into their third relationship, and the Mother’s third boy-friend who she met at the sports-bar last night, might be the latest “father-figure”, in a child’s development. How often does one hear the term, “my baby’s father”, rather than, “my husband”?
The child today has worshipped consistently at the alter of the television god, and this is the moral fiber which has been deeply engrained, and which endows with a sense of right and wrong.
Moral absolutes are anathema and, “if it feels good do it”, the alter call. Truth has become relevant to ones desires for gratification, with higher standards being factored-out of the hedonistic equation.
Fifty years ago the desire of a couple coming to the alter, in the sacred declaration of love and fidelity, was to build a home and a family. They desired to insure stability and a future for their children and grandchildren.
The sacred has long since been profaned, and how many children are unable to keep track of the multiplicity of twisted relationships, with unknown sperm-donors involved. The once stately family tree has been perverted into a tangled bramble of iniquity, for so many children.
Morality and modesty have long since left the building, driven out by relativism and compromise.
2 Timothy 3:
1: This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2: For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3: Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4: Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5: Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6: For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7: Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8: Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9: But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
10: But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11: Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12: Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13: But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14: But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15: And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
__________________
A Servant of Christ,
Drew
Create in me a clean heart,
O God; and renew a right
spirit within me. Psalm 51:10
Marriage was a sacred covenant, not entered into lightly, or without pre-marital counseling. Divorce had a stigma attached and a child born out of wedlock was illegitimate.
The majority of children were born to two parents, who bore the battle-scars of the previous two decades.
Today single parent households are normal, and the moral example of a Father and a Mother has been taken-over by the idiot-box god in the front-room, where little girls cavort as prostitutes and little boys seek drunken debauchery as they party with scarlet women.
In 1954 a Christian dressed modestly, and would not be found buying liquor, or frequenting the neighborhood bar. A girl who called a boy was considered forward, and a boy would have to meet the parents before he would be allowed to date the daughter. There would be no car dates before the age of 16, and both the boy and girl were under strict curfew. A kiss was a major intimacy, and those girls who would go further than 1st base were loose.
Today it has become difficult to tell the Christian from the world. We are far into the “Now” generation. The demand for instant gratification supercedes all wisdom. We demand instant intimacy with our instant coffee, serial monogamy with our disposable diapers. Little girls dress as Britney/Madonna, and look like little Pop Tarts. Little boys dress like M&M and look like little rapper thugs. The gilded idol in the front room delivers sex, perversion, and debauchery sandwiched between commercials for a safer and more satisfying hedonism.
Today the sperm-donor may be into their third relationship, and the Mother’s third boy-friend who she met at the sports-bar last night, might be the latest “father-figure”, in a child’s development. How often does one hear the term, “my baby’s father”, rather than, “my husband”?
The child today has worshipped consistently at the alter of the television god, and this is the moral fiber which has been deeply engrained, and which endows with a sense of right and wrong.
Moral absolutes are anathema and, “if it feels good do it”, the alter call. Truth has become relevant to ones desires for gratification, with higher standards being factored-out of the hedonistic equation.
Fifty years ago the desire of a couple coming to the alter, in the sacred declaration of love and fidelity, was to build a home and a family. They desired to insure stability and a future for their children and grandchildren.
The sacred has long since been profaned, and how many children are unable to keep track of the multiplicity of twisted relationships, with unknown sperm-donors involved. The once stately family tree has been perverted into a tangled bramble of iniquity, for so many children.
Morality and modesty have long since left the building, driven out by relativism and compromise.
2 Timothy 3:
1: This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2: For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3: Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4: Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5: Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6: For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7: Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8: Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9: But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
10: But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11: Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12: Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13: But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14: But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15: And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
__________________
A Servant of Christ,
Drew
Create in me a clean heart,
O God; and renew a right
spirit within me. Psalm 51:10
