BRAGADAYJAH 139

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Age of Insanity

Age of Insanity

If the eighteenth century was budded the age of reason, the twenty first century, this century, may be aptly described as the age of insanity. I recently heard a comment about three teen-aged girls who attempted to leave the luxury and comfort of their homes and their school environment, to go abroad to join ISIS.  And the puzzle was, “Why would they?” And no one seems to be able to come up with the answer, simple and straightforward though it verily is. Before stating the answer, let me just refer to something again that God, The Almighty, All-knowing, All-Seeing, All-powerful One has said, “The FOOL, (that is to say the insane), says in his heart, there is no God.” That’s what God has said.  Do we not see, that all of us, especially children, need God in our lives?  A God which satisfies the hungry, thirsty, wandering soul? All people, children included need an anchor in their lives; they need something, someone, to believe in; and if they can’t find it at home, or at school, of course they are going to go looking for it; they are going to go looking for adventure. That is the way of the youth in all of us.  Some find it close to home some go further afield. Telling children they can’t read their bibles in school and not being encouraged to read it at home, and not been taught to find meaning and purpose in their lives which can only come from faith in God, is bound to set them drifting away, having no moorings; no anchor for their souls, and to go looking for adventure, even choosing to find it in the most unsafe and unlikely places. So we deprive our children of God, and someone introduces them to Satan, and what are they supposed to do, or more particularly what are they expected not to do? Were we not so deeply entrenched in the “Age of Insanity,” we would all know the reason why those girls, and all others like them, would go looking  for answers wherever they think they might find them.

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