Scociety Lies

Psalm 141, "O Lord, I am calling to You. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to You for help! Accept my prayer as incense offered to You, and my upraised hands as an evening offering. Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips. Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness. Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong. Let the godly strike me! It will be a kindness! If they correct me, it is soothing medicine. Don’t let me refuse it."

I am getting myself prepared, mentally, for talking in some schools in Kansas, about abstinence. I have been asked to speak and have been asking God to give me wisdom with what I share. Since I have lived the life that I have, I cannot help but think about the problems that we all have with sex. When I first married Jason, I was a broken, bitter woman. I hated men. I thought they were all so disgusting, because of what I had seen in them. How depraved I had seen them become. Then God softened my heart with my first born son. It was through him that I started looking at things differently and began trying to understand the torment that he would face one day.

Our society has given our children an injustice. They are beaten with temptations everywhere their eyes turn. They cannot sit and watch an innocent movie, because there are none. We went to watch the new Star Trek movie and even in that, there were scenes and talk about sex. It is everywhere. What is society telling our young boys, "it is natural; it feels good, so go out and explore; what you do in your bed room is your business; the more you get, the more satisfied you will be." It goes on and on. What are we telling our girls? Look at how they dress. From very early we are sending our young girls out to be seductresses and the parents are approving. The average age for loosing your virginity now is 12. "But it is okay, you should explore your sexuality..." What?? Does no one care about the repercussions these children are going to face?

I have seen handsome, intelligent, successful men, broken because of their addiction to pornography. I have experienced the heartache that is placed upon girls, because of the lure of sex. I have experienced, first hand, the pains of the sex industry. And every day I see children's lives destroyed, now, because of what society is telling them. I have heard school counselors tell 7th grade girls that "they need to determine the boundaries they choose for sex." Are you kidding me! We should not be telling our children, that sex boundaries are just something that needs to thought about and they need to determine their own boundaries. I know, they are the one that have to make the decisions, but they need to be guided. They need to be told to set their boundaries high. Whatever happened to the adults leading the children? Well I guess they are. The question we must ask is, where are we leading them? Why don't we feel free to talk about consequences of our choices? Why are the adults sitting back silently, letting our children suffer with decision that are to hard for even the adults to conquer most of the time? I think it is because most adults are so ashamed of their own evil desires that they cannot talk about their own mistakes and weaknesses with their children. So we sit back and watch helplessly. No parents, help your children. Share your struggles so that your children can hopefully conquer theirs.