CONSUMPTION

by Dr. Karen Colvin on March 3, 2017

in Word of the Week

youth culture Leaving Babylon pgs. 138-139

Adam and Eve’s children have become more estranged from each other. Each has forgotten what God called them to be to each other. The divorce rate today is at an all-time high. Today many choose not to marry but to live together and have children without any binding commitment to each other. The fear of loving each other at that level overwhelms them, so they avoid it all together. Children grow up never knowing what it is to live under the security of a parental marriage covenant. Children grow up in the atmosphere that Dad or Mom may or may not be there tomorrow. They can just walk away or move out without any binding responsibility to them. The children of Adam and Eve are basically on their own, so they have made up their own rules of survival and developed their own coping strategies—strategies that feel good for the moment but will eventually consume them. Today, we see more and more of our youth consumed in lies, drugs, sex, and heinous acts of violence. Many of them are behaving with no understanding of love, mercy, or peace. They are driven by an anger that they cannot explain. Some, in their hunger for commitment from someone or anyone, pledge themselves to gangs, to cults, and, in some cases, to the occult.youth and the cross

What they need to know is that Someone is committed to them, and that Someone does love them unconditionally. We are beings that need nothing less than this. Without that critical element in our lives, we become fearful and angry beings. Without love, we are vulnerable to its opposite, hate.

 

“For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16 nlt)

 

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