This generation's revolution--of the prophetic and pathetic

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Thursday, August 11, 2011



This generation's revolution--of the prophetic and pathetic



There is a rebellion of youth across the world, and those youth of revival as so often prophesied by the the church are a distinct minority. Yes, there are young people who are doing well, following the Lord and will be the leaders of the this next generation, both spiritually and industrially. But the recent riots in London, and the violent flash mobs in Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, DC, and Milwaukee, point to a more disturbing trend that is sure to challenge the leaders of this next generation. Try as Christians might to pour into their own children good spiritual waters, the world is being flooded with water from poisonous wells of bad government, bad education and bad parenting.



"If you live a normal life of absolute futility, which we can assume most of this week's rioters do, excitement of any kind is welcome. The people who wrecked swathes of property, burned vehicles and terrorized communities have no moral compass to make them susceptible to guilt or shame," says Max Hastings of the UK Daily Mail. "Most have no jobs to go to or exams they might pass. They know no family role models, for most live in homes in which the father is unemployed, or from which he has decamped...They respond only to instinctive animal impulses - to eat and drink, have sex, seize or destroy the accessible property of others...They are essentially wild beasts."



Hastings asks, "So who is to blame? The breakdown of families, the pernicious promotion of single motherhood as a desirable state, the decline of domestic life so that even shared meals are a rarity, have all contributed importantly to the condition of the young underclass.The social engineering industry unites to claim that the conventional template of family life is no longer valid." Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter preached a sermon Sunday, August 7, admonishing parents, saying "Parents who neglect their children, who don't know where they are, who don't know what they're doing, who don't know who they're hanging out with, you're going to find yourself spending some quality time with your kids in jail."



He told fathers: "If you're not providing the guidance, and you're not sending any money, you're just a sperm donor." He told the rogue youth to pull down their hoodies, pull up their pants, and buy a belt because nobody wanted to hire someone who looked crazy. Good advice. We cannot blame the condition of our youth on the condition of our youth. It has to start somewhere. Parenting and family is become as rare as Norman Rockwell prints. The Bible says in Proverbs 22:6, "Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Working two jobs that you might have more material possessions is not a mandate from the Lord, but raising your children, teaching them character, good manners, responsibility, respect, and morals, is.





Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!

Bill Wilson