It never fails…
At least once per week, partially because I work with teenagers in the area of sexual/emotional/relational brokenness, I will hear an adult say, almost condescendingly so, “I don’t know what’s going on with these youth today.”
Now, while I’m *hardly* youth, for some reason, again, partially because I work with teens, I find myself getting really irritated because being that the Word tells us that we are to *train* a child in the way they should go (Proverbs 27:1), if they’re going to pot, why does it seem like parents/teachers/pastors/mentors are not taking *their role* more seriously? Why are *they* not wondering if they did/have done all that they can do for the young people in their spiritual space?
Then, after the last post that I shared about all of the young women that are, um, Sugar Babies, and then reading (and sharing on my “On Fire” blog) a story about a woman’s journey from fornication to marital peace and her finding in an article a source she cited stating that Christians are having just as much, if not more, premarital sex and abortions, I thought, “OK. Let me just put the question right on out there…” We’re seeing what’s going on in our culture because young people (shoot, an older ones too for that matter!) are not understanding the purpose of relationships, sexuality, marriage, etc., but I don’t think we explore, nearly enough, WHY this may be the case. Hosea 4:6 tells us that people are destroyed from a lack of *knowledge*; not just because they “feel like showing out”. And so, the question for this week is, in looking back at your own upbringing…
“When it came to sex, where did your parents (teachers, pastors, mentors) fail you?”