CRAZY FOR SEX

'MOTHERS PUT THEIR TEENS ON BIRTH CONTROL'  

This is one of the Headlines in to-day's Daily Nation here in Kenya. 'Some parents' the article continues ' are secretly putting rebellious daughters on contraceptives...

girls are being duped into getting contraceptive injections, disguised as cervical cancer vaccines,

while boys re being encouraged to carry condoms.'

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?    Well look around you!   The whole world society is 'hooked'  on SEX, even more than Heroin!     Television is practically ALL sex, more or less as graphic as it comes. You can't sell a tooth-brush or a computer without some sexual allusion - more or less explicit.   Books, films, fashions, music, are all geared to sex together with the road hoardings and advertising in general.   There are no 'childrens' programmes or other material that can be said to be without sex.    From six years children are dressed up, made, up, and encouraged to act like adults - including the idea of falling in love with each other. IS IT SURPRISING that more and more pregnancies are occurring among children from 13 upwards, and sometimes even younger?   Little proper advice, information, or even education on these matters is given at home OR inj school..     And when council is given 'when you talk about these things with teenagers they just dismiss you as being ignorant or outdated, says one mother.'   AND the 2014 Family Planning 2020 Report shows that   'in sub-Saharan African countries, more than 15 percent of girls have their first sexual experience before their 15th Birthday.   As they grow into their late teens and early 20s, their sexual relations become more and more spur of the moment, unprotected. slapdash affairs'

Parents are more and more anxious about their children; anxious enough to take steps to try to prevent them from unwanted pregnancies.

BUT such action does not always lead to success, but to even worse conclusions.    For example 'Gemma' a girl of 15 was secretly tricked into taking the Pill.    After a short time (two weeks) she suffered a stroke, which the doctor attributed to having taken the Pill.    Two years later, at 17, she suffered a second stroke leaving her unable to walk or talk.   Her mother wrote 'I thought the Pill was harmless, but now my daughter is in hospital, unable to walk or talk.    Her whole life and future blighted - at 17!

IN THE BIBLE - In the Old Testament Book of Leviticus chapter 19v29 it is written -

'Do not profane (make unholy/unclean/impure/contemptible) your daughters by causing her to be a harlot,
(by encouraging her to indulge in pre marrital sex)

lest the land fall into harlotry, and become 

full of wickedness.'

Interesting verse isn't it, and I suppose some might immediately say YES, that is why we have to act for our daughters the way we do; that is why we have to get them on the Pill, and our sons the Condoms!      Well it IS one way of looking at it.......ANOTHER way would be to say that such action only encourages, and precipitates 'the whole land falling into harlotry and wickedness.'     Hmmm.

Some years ago now, in the 90s, some overseas donor offered to put Dispensers of Free Condoms in every University - as a precaution against HIV /AIDS!     This under the Governments concern to promote 'SAFE' sex,      I confronted our local Medical Officer of Health on the issue, and asked him if it was true that even Condoms of ANY kind were NOT Faith safe.     A bit like 'Russian Roulet'.   Additionally the condom, still a risk, actually encourages the majority into MORE sexual relationships increasing an immoral attitude in our sexual relationships nation wide.    Was it WORTH it?       The Physician sat at his desk looking a little disconcerted, and could not reply, except to say that the condoms being supplied were not the best, and that it was merely an attempt to calm any unrest being brought about by the AIDS scare.  I am sure he was relieved to see me go.

HUMANITY KNOWS THE RISKS in life, even warns about them, but usually does little to effectively prevent the inevitable from happening.     And usually MONEY or 'Filthy Lucre' as the Bible calls it, is at the bottom of everything - the ROOT of every evil.      Thus our governments who are supposed to protect and improve us, will often say little in order to reap a profit somewhere, as with the sale of Beer, and  Cigarettes.   The greatest merchandise is made from Humanity itself; from you and me, and our children and grandchildren.

The PILL is a humanly devised convenience which has been more and more used to make sure we do not have to pay for our inexcusable behaviour toward and with one another.     It kills the the 'implant' but does not interrupt our fun, enjoyment, or the depreciation of Life itself.   I mean, that by freeing ourselves to indulge in sexual pursuits outside of the marriage bed, we selfishly and dishonorable use the Seed of Life itself to just please ourselves.

To give the Pill to children of 13 or under is totally irresponsible and dangerous.( Again some years ago a Kenyan Minister of Health, no longer in government, advised ALL mothers to make sure their 12 (TWELVE) year old girls went to School with the Pill in their handbag/purse/whatever).  AGAIN a very imperfect, if not almost totally useless way, of keeping my child safe.      My wife and I have brought up two daughters of our own, and countless others in a family averaging 70 members over 28 years,  30% being girls, and in our time saw only TWO become involved sexually with any boy, either within the Children's Home, School, or the neighbourhood.     We thought it was not a bad result.     We only had the ONE Home then, and now we have FOUR.     Out of the three or more hundred children, boys and girls, that have passed through, and about 140 that are still passing through,  this incidence has risen, but not enormously.    We do not hand out condoms or the PILL.        But of course we confront our children with those topics and human temptations that can get them into trouble, or harm the, and for the most part they listen and take notice.   We teach them about GOD, and His Commandments for life.

Naturally we are in no way trying undervalue the use of sexual relationships in life.    God Himself introduced the idea of SEX   BUT we are not encouraging the idea that it is a 'Plaything' or some casual, risky entertainment; only pointing our that it needs to be better presented than it it has been, and in such a way that People might understand the inadvisability of treating it with disrespect and careless ignorance.      It is meant FIRST for those who have come together in Marriage, and who then intend to produce children between themselves in that marriage.

ALL true wisdom come from above - from GOD alone.
Our world is increasingly dismantling the very idea of God. Respect for His Word, and Regard for his Law and Justice is rife - to say nothing of His Love and Mercy.      We are a world society that is less and less aware of God, and what pleases Him.  We do not appreciate His ability to intervene and interact with mankind.     We run not to HIM, but more and more to ourselves in order to work out our salvation the best we we can.       BUT GOD has told us to work out, solve, our salvation with FEAR and TREMBLING in case we get it wrong - and the only we to get it RIGHT is to give attention to HIS Word found in the BIBLE.

And God says 'BRING UP your child in the Way it should go.'   This is something every parent OUGHT to do, and it has to DO it KNOWING THE RIGHT WAY.        A child needs to know God's WAY, needs to KNOW about Jesus, and the PARENT is the one who has to know first, so that he or she can show the child.     It is a RESPONSIBILITY  many fail to take up, and thus  we find an increasing increment of Lawlessness, and Disregard for all that is Godly and RIGHT.      When we have managed to throw God, His Word, and His Way out of the 'window' we shall indeed live in total darkness and ignorance.
SO we should repent of this turn about, and come back to GOD, and God's way in our lives, for the sake of the next generation, the generation of our Children and grandchildren.    WE should read and give attention to what God is saying about it.    We should think carefully what He is saying in the Book of Deuteronomy chapter 8 in the Old Testament of the Bible, verses 1-15.    These are the verses that exhort us to TEACH our children about GOD - all the time from when they can understand between right and wrong - when you are sitting down in your house,when are out walking with them, and when you prepare for bed at night, AND when you get up in the morning.        IT IS THE ONLY WAY to instill into the mind and heart of any child a Way of Life he will ever remember and regard, till he or she dies.   And to do this well you need yourself to KNOW and LOVE God, and to be able to share you own personal stories about God from your own experience of Him!!     You should be doing this from the word GO, for the longer you leave it the less you will be regarded - the Way of the World around you will have led your child astray, kidnapping him, and preventing him from listening to you.

WALK IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH

with your children; tell the truth

TEACH them the Truth of God's Word and Commandments.

Each one of us holds the NEXT Generation in our hands.

What it will be like is up to each one of us.