Have you ever asked the question: Were previous generations infected with the same immoral social diseases we struggle with today? Is it worse now than it was 50 or 100 years ago? When you consider the following it certainly seems so...Violent crimes have tripled in the last 50 years.Children murder their parents and teachers. Parents murder their children. (Caylee Anthony)One in four teenage girls now have a STD. The stats are depressing.Human nature has always been the same. We are depraved. We are all born in sin. "We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."So, why does it seem like it is worse today than it was several decades ago? Our sinful desires and passions are kept in check by our ability to say 'no' by God's grace. We learn from history that a society who fails to instill self-control within their children will breed generations of citizens who are self-indulgent, narcissistic, and lack the ability to say 'no' to their own passions. They will steal, murder and cheat because we have been taught, or permitted to be defiant to authority figures and to be self-indulgent. We seem to think self-gratification is an entitlement.If we are to save subsequent generations, should we not place more emphasis on self-control instead of self-esteem in our children? Should we not guide our chldren to think more of God and others instead of themselves?
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