TODAY’S TEENAGERS:
WHO IS TO BE BLAMED? (Part 1)
Adesina Abegunde
21 I did not send these prophets yet they have run
with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied. 22 But if they had stood in
my council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have
turned them from their evil deeds… 29
“Is not my word like fire”, declares the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks
the rock into pieces?” Jeremiah 23: 21, 22, 29 (NIV)
Instead speaking the truth in love, we will in all things
grow up into Him who is the Head, that is, Christ. Ephesians 4: 15 (NIV)
Every older generation has the task of “educonnecting”
their younger generations according to Deuteronomy 6:4-9. No generation is
formed in isolation; every generation is a product of the complex interplay of
the strengths and weaknesses of generations ahead.
We must take responsibility for what our children
have become today. Rev. Dr. Mike Ayo-Obiremi gave an illustration while preaching
in a naming ceremony on the 10th of January 2012, it was about a boy who asked
his father why he is not abiding by the traffic rule when driving, the father
always had to give reasons for being disobedient, yet he taught the boy to be
obedient. Please if this boy become a disobedient teenager, who is to be
blamed?
I once told a secondary school girl to speak with the
teacher in charge of their fellowship and she said “never, she looks at us as
if we are not human beings.” If this kind of girl should go wayward, who is to
be blamed?
A boy was found to be smoking Indian hem, after
counseling it was found out that the father smokes cigarettes and drinks; after
all it is the prayer of every elderly ones that our children will exceed us in
all things. Even Jesus told His own disciples too, saying “greater things than
these (the things He did) shall ye do.” Our younger generations have only
exceeded us, multiplying what we have sown in them. Who then is to be blamed?
As young boys we watched our fathers harassed our
pastors, yet they taught us to be respectful. We watched them play “po-li-trics”
yet taught us to be people of integrity. Little did they know that their lives
were speaking louder than their words, and so who is to be blamed?
In the olden days, teenagers had no books, but they
had exemplifying lives all-around, nowadays we have a lot of books from men
whose lives contradict the very things they write.
Where does pornography come from? From the younger
or the older generation? Everything a younger generation manifest is always the
advanced version of what the older generations transmit to them. While the
older generation may not have a hundred percent blame, they sure have a greater
portion.
I will pause here till next week.
Please take time to pray for this generation that
God will have mercy in Jesus name.
You will escape the corruption of this generation in
Jesus name.
The perilous storm will not sweep you off in Jesus
name.
God bless you.
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