It's sad, ridiculous and alarming all at once how sexualized the world has become. Everywhere you turn, look or tune into, your senses are assaulted with images that are designed to evoke a base, prurient response.
Celebrities indulge in flesh parades taken to the heights of Gaga-ish bizarreness which adoring fans try their best to ape. Men and women eyeball each other as they would a juicy hunk of meat and make sex the currency of love.
Sex has been commoditized to the point that pornography and aberrant sexual behaviour are accepted as normal: where sexual promiscuity is endorsed and chastity denigrated.
Worst of all is when children are taken advantage of while their parents look on approvingly; often the progenitors of the early sexualization of their children. They hand their children on a platter to paedophiles and sexual predators when they allow their pre-pubescent children to dress and act as if they were navigating a singles' convention.
When I was a young girl, my mother refused to let me wear clothes she deemed inappropriate for my age. Nothing too revealing or adult; and no nail polish or make-up until I was sixteen or so. Leading by example she was (and still is) always appropriately attired. Both she and my father made sure I behaved and comported myself properly.
Although I chafed against the conservative ways of my parents then, today I am glad that they were true guardians of my innocence and childhood.
Who will protect the children now when parents themselves don't even know the difference between right and wrong and instead are fiercely proud of having their children sexually exploited for the sake of money and fame?
We have lost a sense of respect for the sanctity of our bodies. We treat our sexuality and our human dignity as bargain basement merchandise - shop soiled and cheap.
It pains me when children are not taught the proper reverence for their minds, hearts and bodies, that their identity is intrinsically precious, not to be exploited, because they are the very image of God.
Every child deserves to enjoy the innocence of childhood and to have it kept unsullied for as long as possible.
Every teen deserves to be respected and valued for his and her being and not manipulated into living out someone else's dream or fantasy, be it parent, peer or predatory stranger.
It is the responsibility of every adult to protect every child in the world: to teach the young the true meaning and full expression of love so as to eradicate under aged sex and teenage pregnancy; to destroy the ever-exploding child sex trade and reclaim the glory of love as espoused by Jesus Christ.
Teach your children and grandchildren is something Moses reminded the Israelites (Deuteronomy 4:9) as crucial for the well-being of future generations. This piece of advice applies today, more than ever.
We must begin first with ourselves. By educating ourselves on what is right and wrong, good and bad. Say no to sexual immorality. Make a stand against a world with constantly shifting boundaries of relativism.
Watch how we live: what we do for entertainment, who we hang out with and with what do we feed our minds. Like Ezra (in chapter 7 verse 10), if we devote our lives to studying, obeying and teaching the laws and decrees of the Lord, we will be able to bring the fullness of Christian life into our own lives and that of the people around us.
And then we can teach all children well and equip them with the values and skills to change the world we live in for the better.
Celebrities indulge in flesh parades taken to the heights of Gaga-ish bizarreness which adoring fans try their best to ape. Men and women eyeball each other as they would a juicy hunk of meat and make sex the currency of love.
Sex has been commoditized to the point that pornography and aberrant sexual behaviour are accepted as normal: where sexual promiscuity is endorsed and chastity denigrated.
Worst of all is when children are taken advantage of while their parents look on approvingly; often the progenitors of the early sexualization of their children. They hand their children on a platter to paedophiles and sexual predators when they allow their pre-pubescent children to dress and act as if they were navigating a singles' convention.
When I was a young girl, my mother refused to let me wear clothes she deemed inappropriate for my age. Nothing too revealing or adult; and no nail polish or make-up until I was sixteen or so. Leading by example she was (and still is) always appropriately attired. Both she and my father made sure I behaved and comported myself properly.
Although I chafed against the conservative ways of my parents then, today I am glad that they were true guardians of my innocence and childhood.
Who will protect the children now when parents themselves don't even know the difference between right and wrong and instead are fiercely proud of having their children sexually exploited for the sake of money and fame?
We have lost a sense of respect for the sanctity of our bodies. We treat our sexuality and our human dignity as bargain basement merchandise - shop soiled and cheap.
It pains me when children are not taught the proper reverence for their minds, hearts and bodies, that their identity is intrinsically precious, not to be exploited, because they are the very image of God.
Every child deserves to enjoy the innocence of childhood and to have it kept unsullied for as long as possible.
Every teen deserves to be respected and valued for his and her being and not manipulated into living out someone else's dream or fantasy, be it parent, peer or predatory stranger.
It is the responsibility of every adult to protect every child in the world: to teach the young the true meaning and full expression of love so as to eradicate under aged sex and teenage pregnancy; to destroy the ever-exploding child sex trade and reclaim the glory of love as espoused by Jesus Christ.
Teach your children and grandchildren is something Moses reminded the Israelites (Deuteronomy 4:9) as crucial for the well-being of future generations. This piece of advice applies today, more than ever.
We must begin first with ourselves. By educating ourselves on what is right and wrong, good and bad. Say no to sexual immorality. Make a stand against a world with constantly shifting boundaries of relativism.
Watch how we live: what we do for entertainment, who we hang out with and with what do we feed our minds. Like Ezra (in chapter 7 verse 10), if we devote our lives to studying, obeying and teaching the laws and decrees of the Lord, we will be able to bring the fullness of Christian life into our own lives and that of the people around us.
And then we can teach all children well and equip them with the values and skills to change the world we live in for the better.
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