This was a difficult post to write. The content is unpleasant. But if we love God and love our children we have no choice but to become salt and light to a dark nation.
America has become obsessed with the pursuit of sexual lust. Our nation risks the death of teenagers in order to be rid God’s design for sex. If you have doubts about this, note today’s headlines.
One popular news site today posted these two headline links in consecutive order:
1. FDA Approves Morning-After Pill For Over-the-Counter sales Age 15 and Up
2. Doctor: Gonorrhea super bug worse than Aids
On the one hand the FDA has just approved a drug that will encourage sexual activity among teenagers. On the other hand national health organizations are sounding the alarm about an anti-biotic resistant strain of gonorrhea.
“It’s an emergency situation,” said William Smith, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors. “As time moves on, it’s getting more hazardous.”
So, while our nation’s teenagers are exposed to a new and deadly threat from sexual activity, the FDA responds by making a morning after pill available to any 15 year old and older with no prescription.
With this sort of care for our young people, it is fair to say that they are being sacrificed on the altar of sexual promiscuity. This is another indication that our country has no more use for marriage. For sexual lust to reign, marriage must be destroyed as an institution.
No, this language is not too strong. These headlines demonstrate how little God’s Word is valued by our leaders. Our nation has cast off marriage and embraced self-pleasure as its bottom line. In other words, we want nothing to do with the God of the Bible. What can you do?
Teach your children the folly of flaunting God. God established marriage at the very beginning of the human race. To understand the importance of marriage, we must first be changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The cold truth is that our country, our laws, our leaders are seeking the end of marriage as a social institution. The attack on marriage is violent. Abortion, the embrace of pornography, the relational damage done to people who engage in extra-marital sex, and now making the morning after pill available to our teenagers all show the nature of this violence. This is the price that is paid so that marriage can be cast aside as the place for sexual relations. The attack on marriage masquerades as a quest for fairness. Why should sex be restricted to marriage? Who is God to impose such restrictions? It really is that simple and that evil.
Proverbs 4 teaches that the way of the wicked is deep darkness. They don’t know what makes them stumble.
Pray for the courage to be salt and light. Only the gospel can rescue us from ourselves.
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4 thoughts on “Teenagers Sacrificed on Altar of Sexual Promiscuity.”
Thanks for the article. It is sad to see that sanctity of marriage is no longer honoured in our society by our governments, our legal systems or our media. The governments passed laws to make divorce more accessible and less accountable. Our governments and media are not only seducing our children to be promiscuous , but also leading our spouses to forsake their marital promises. In addition, children from divorced family suffer more psychological damages, and will more likely go on with their lives hurting themselves and people love them (may it be their future spouse or their future children). I don’t mean to demonize children of divorced marriage, on the contrary I have deep compassion for them, as I am a child of a mother whose parents divorced when she was 6, and am currently in a process of being divorced by another child of divorced family. I am angry that our governments are so careless and ruthless with destroying our societies at its very core – family. Yet I am grateful that God allowed me to feel such pain and hopelessness, that I surrender to God for refuge. I pray for God’s love and healing for people who have been wounded by the violation of God’s teaching, and I pray for more people to accept the truth in God’s teaching and learn to love one another like God love us. God bless!
Jay, It saddens me to say ‘thank you’ for writing this, but thank you! It is blatantly obvious that the destruction of marriage is at hand, I wish that the church was somehow standing outside of this (set apart) issue as a unique place where God’s truth and desires are honored and upheld, that the church didn’t look so much like the world. We are not the city on the hill attracting others because things just seem to go right due to our obedient faith in the Living God. To hear people say,’let’s go to church, they’ve got it right–the divorce rate is so much lower, they build strong families, they are always caring for each other, they really know how to love, they have true joy,’ would be truly amazing, but sadly, they don’t because we don’t have any of those things anymore than the world does! The work that needs to be done is within our own walls.
I would also like to Thank You for this article and the encouragment contained in it. More articles like this one needs to be published in the main stream but the chances of that are slim. My husband and I have been married almost 7 years and we have 3 children between us, 2 of whom are teenagers. We have struggled for the past 4 years with various different tragedies which have taken a huge toll on our marriage and family. My husband has what he calls “serious God issues” and I’m a Christian. Needless to say, with the condition of our marriage and blended family, it has been very difficult for us to not fall apart. But seeing how the world is treating marriage in this day and age, it makes me realize how much I do love my husband and how thankful I am for him and our family. No-one ever said that marriage is easy. Too many people now a days want the easy way out of things. They want to “play house” without the committment or responsibilities. But at the end of the day, they are empty and hollow inside because they are going against God’s plan for marriage. I speak from first hand experience. Despite what alot of people think there is freedom to be found in God’s restrictions. By the power of God my 17 year old daughter and 15 year old son are both virgins and intend to keep it that way until they are married. We are very close and talk about everything very openly. They understand what living outside of God’s will does to people. They are both “salt and light” in a very dark world. And I’m so Thankful that they are. If parents would take more time with their children and explain what happens when they have sex before marriage, etc. more teens wouldn’t make the same mistakes alot of their parents did. I was so far gone at one point in my life that I had to give my 3rd child up for adoption because I had lost my job and could barely provide for the 2 toddlers I already had so I KNOW what happens when you go against God’s plan for marriage and I’ve felt the agony that it brings. Parents need to step up and put their feelings of guilt and embarrassment about their past mistakes aside and let their children learn from their parents mistakes so they themselves don’t repeat them. Every parent should want their children’s lives to be better then what they had. Especially when it comes to decisions they made that caused them grief and pain. In society, we are putting restrictions on some of the dumbest things, ie. dodgeball, tag, using sticks as guns to play, etc. and we are letting immorality run rampant. Society as a whole has their moral compass turned backwards. Does Sodom and Gomorrah ring a bell to anyone?
Well said. May the Church arise from its slumber and may we turn this tsunami of evil around by the Power of the Holy Spirit.