23/06/2007

• An observation affirming the denegerating morals of our generational successors

  I went to Hershey Park yesterday for our annual company picnic (our regular off-day). It was an enjoyable time on the rides and with colleagues, but it was also a spiritually distressing and grieving time. Being an engineer keen on observation (and also thinking about the mechanically mathematical aspects of the respective ride about which I am to enjoy), I observed people while waiting in the ride queues. It seems that the young people's attitude and/or morals (or rather, their hearts) are reflected in their hair. Currently and even moreso over the last several years, they seem to love the Beatles look (John Lennon or Paul McCartney in the 60's come immediately to mind in describing the look) or a "wild" look (think of a wash mop with frizzed and completely tangled filaments). I think that those styles are shaggy, unkempt, and sloppy (like the degenerating morals of today's young people). Yesterday, I firmly decided that if I marry and have children, I will give my son(s) the choice on the length of hair, but in turn, they must keep it neat and well-kept in a manner worthy of the Gospel. Otherwise, like my paternal grandfather (though an unbeliever) almost did to my father once in his teenage years, I will take a sheep shear to my son's hair if he doesn't keep it neat and godly!
  
  Not only with the hair, I noticed a lot of immodest dress and inappropriate (i.e, unbiblical) affection between courters.  (Yes, immodest dress includes not only females but also males!)  I also noticed the "laid back" footwear (usually nothing more than flip-flops that the ride attendants require removal) that is unwisely and unhygenic for the person who walks barefoot along the pavement though for a short distance (~12 feet). In waiting for my last ride of the day (the 3rd time on my favorite roller coaster that day), I observed people joking about the sexual orientation of homosexuality. It was nice that a young girl of the group apologized to me since she didn't like the joking either.  (Even if the person was homosexual, it should not be publicized because of the rampant, unScriptural homophobia that is present in today's culture.  Homophobia being not justification of homosexuality but the uncharitable judgment of homosexuals.)  Yet God commands us to be good stewards of our bodies that He created and to portray sin truly as sin by not celebrating or joking about sin!
  
  All of this is on the surface, but the depths they reveal are unbelief and rebellion toward God and sacrificing covenience or look for godliness. The true solution to this is a solution that will not only address the bad fruit but also the root of the cackerous plant. The only solution, that goes straight to the root, is the glorious, freeing Gospel of Jesus Christ: diligently preaching it to ourselves and sharing it with our neighbors. Otherwise, without the Gospel, a person, regardless of age, will continue in their sin and ultimately reap self-destruction in eternal Hell, a place of forever-lasting physical and spiritual torment completely separated from the Merciful Presence of God.
  
  I distresses and greives me to observe such ungodly things and moves me to compassion for people.  However, I am grateful to God for the Church and for His Law. After to-day, I am certainly more grateful to God for the neat hair, our sisters' modest dress, and appropriate/godly displays of affection found in Gospel-believing, Gospel-living Reformed churches. That certainly reflects our Reformed brethren's desire to love and honor God in how they present themselves (and their Saviour) to the Church, to the ungodly culture, and especially to their Lord and Saviour. It has certainly taught me what God hates and grieves and what He loves and enjoys. That has enabled me to hate and forsake my own sin more and to flee temptation with greater speed.

  A 100,000 thank you's, Christian parents, that have cared for your childrens's souls and sought to raise them in Jesus Christ and in opposition to the current ungodly rebellious culture!

  A 100,000 thank you's to those godly young people who have desired to follow Jesus and walk blamelessly before Him in presenting themselves (and their Savior) in manner of hair, dress, and affection.
  

  ("Reformed" also includes Reformed-leaning churches that may be Baptistic or charismatic.)

  
  Whit R., who is
  Covenanter in Belief and Practice

  Covenant Life Church Member (ex officio, not de facto)

  Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) Occasional Visitor

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