As I take a daily inventory concerning our young generation in this nation, I often ask myself the question, “Where did their parents go wrong?” Ephesians 6:1-4 tells us about the proper behavior of parents and children. For too long we’ve been witnessing our sons and daughters dying prematurely. As believers, we must stand and declare with a shout “Enough is enough!” We cannot continue to have church as usual when a war is taking place among our children. Let us arise in obedience to the clarion call and declare, “NOT MY CHILD.” You might be thinking, This doesn’t apply to me. but let me give you a word of advice. Each child in the nation belongs to us. They may not be ours biologically, but they are spiritually.
Never before have we seen discipline, self-respect, and morality take such a nose-dive. We understand since the beginning of time until now the stage has been set to remove the man-child from his position—we read about Moses, Joseph, and even our Lord Jesus Christ to name a few. We must realize in every nation that there’s a Herod or a Pharaoh who has the spirit of intimidation or manipulation and they’re lurking in wait of the next victim. Are you not fed up from rising every morning to the bad news from the reporters?
As believers, our service is to obey the sound of the alarm. It’s time for us to weep between the porch and the altar. When our sons are gunned down in the streets and their blood is crying out on the streets of our nation for justice to be done, “IS THERE NOT A CAUSE?” When our schools become a hell-town for trigger happy youths who walk about on our streets like a ticking time-bombs because they’re seeking attention from families and friends who will not take time off from their busy to-do lists and listen to their heart’s cry—these one’s who are destined to spend the remainder of their years locked away from society. “IS THERE NOT A CAUSE”? When there’s a high rate of divorce in the home and our daughters are being raped, abused, misused, confused, and are even murdered by the men they once thought cared for them. And parents are being murdered by the very hands of their children—the one’s they once though would be their pride and joy. “IS THERE NOT A CAUSE”? I repeat, “IS THERE NOT A CAUSE”? Remember David (1 Samuel 17:26-50) and Esther (Esther 4:16-17) who stood in the gap for their nation as they understood their purpose?
Believers, the time has come for us to make sure our armor is placed on properly, as we pray and intercede. Let’s attune our ears for the strategies and signals to march into the enemy’s camp and take back what is rightfully ours. When we take back our schools, families, marriages, nations, communities, and relationships with the authority given to us by our Commander-in-Chief—our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, then and only then shall we see Joel 2:28 and 2 Chronicles 7:14 being manifested. —submitted by Jacqui Doyle, US
daisymarygoldr on July 11, 2011 at 7:36 pm
Jacqui Doyle, thanks for the powerful post! It has struck a familiar chord deep down in my grieving heart. The first generation through faith gets delivered from bondage into the liberty of God’s truths… only to have a later generation through apathy to be enslaved to those same shackles of bondage once again.
Today we live in a society where men are no longer the leaders of the pack, women lost the value of nurturing children at home, individualism of men, women and children is the norm, there is freedom for sex outside marriage including homosexuality, marriage laws exist to make divorce easy, and materialism is the overriding purpose of life.
In the church, when all of the above cultural trends is present many more children will be aborted, abandoned, molested, and undisciplined. Untrained children like untended plants push boundaries, defy authority and grow up to be wild and unruly. The family ceases to function when God is replaced with entertainment, games and fun. Eventually, unbelief in God diminishes parental authority, devalues moral principles and produces anarchy in the church community.
Is there not a cause for this moral decline? It is because like the parents of Joshua’s time we have failed in our responsibility to raise our children in the ways of the Lord. Ps 78:3-7 admonishes us to teach the precepts of God’s Word to our children and grandchildren. However, parents cannot impart what we do not know. So, we must first know God and obey His Word before we teach the next generation to do the same.
Praying for all children everywhere…