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.
