Things I wonder about

"Daddy, can you help me?"

"What is it son?"

"I want to wear my tie and my belt...so I can be a little man."

Some things make me wonder. Some are funny and make me laugh. What goes through a little person's mind? How is it that they think and see things. Can you imagine seeing things from a child's perspective? You could crawl around on the floor to see things from the way they see things. But the physical things little folks see isn't the only things they see that we don't.

"We were driving down the street," the speaker is relating an incident with his two children, "as we passed an 'adult' movie theater my daughter asked what it was. I told her it was a movie theater that had 'dirty movies'. A few minutes later I overheard as she explained to her younger brother. 'Yes, she said, it's a movie theater that shows 'dirty movies'. That's where people sit around and spit at each other."

I've never understood why they call those things 'adult'. None of the things they call adult really are adult. They could call it self-centered, selfish, warped, twisted...there are several things it could be called but adult isn't one of them.

Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Women have a deep influence on society for either good or evil. When even the women leave their God-given sphere then society suffers. In the above instance it is speaking of God's disapproval of the homosexual life style, and it being against nature. However, as repugnant as that life style may be to some, have we missed something...have we overlooked an aspect of the things that God gives people up to do?

Not many honest people would deny that we have a plethora of problems today caused by our 'casual' view on divorce and remarriage and divorce and remarriage, and.... Some people change family partners every few years. They jump from one relationship to another, leaving behind them families and children and beginning new families and new children. Some times they divorce and remarry, sometimes they just move in together. They call it 'living together', some people call it 'shacking up', but God calls it 'sin'.

1Corinthians 5:12&13 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13) But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

People that are not Christians (them that are 'without') God will judge. They that don't obey the gospel of Christ are already judged, because they haven't obeyed. (Those that are obedient, those that are Christians, are to be 'judged' in this life by Christians, and in the next life-- by God). Sadly, these sins have seeped into even those who profess Christ.

There was a time when 'good' people just didn't do certain things. There was a time when 'Christians' set the standard. They helped society SEE what was right and how society should live.

1Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Why are we a society of 'children' masquerading under the guise of 'adults'. If we began judging 'adults' by behavior instead of by an age, how different things could be. For instance: Adults are responsible people, therefore, they will not 'use' another person as if they are 'things', or-- adults will weigh their actions thinking of how those actions will affect others not only now but in the future, another? --adults will act in a responsible manner, because they know that their actions have consequences--and our society, and our future (s) depend on responsible consequences. I'm sure other people can think of things true adults would do.

It's not easy being an adult, and adults don't always do the 'right' thing, no matter how hard they try, but so very few even try any more!

"I just thought," the young preteen girl stammers, "Dad never calls, or comes to see us anymore, and I just..."

The talk show host tries to be gentle, but how do you tell a young child--"Your dad doesn't love you any more. He's moved on to his new 'honey'. He has a 'new' family, and it's just too bad for you, cause...he just doesn't love you any more?

How do you tell this young girl...or any young girl or any young boy for that matter the ugly, awful, and especially excruciating truth. The people in your life that God intended to love, nurture, and protect you...they could really care less...about you or anyone else except themselves?

We can pass laws to 'make' dead beat parents pay child support, but what we need is to transform dead beat parents into Godly, loving, caring, parents. Parents who start putting first things first.

We need to have a true heart for God. We need to seek God and His paths--through Jesus Christ. That would begin a change in our society that would reach into more aspects than that of how we treat children. People would see that murdering babies under a flag of 'freedom of choice' gives rise to treating with disdain, not just children, but the old, the infirm, undesirable. Anything we don't want--it's just a 'freedom to choose'.

I Corinthians 13:4-8 Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5) doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; 6) rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; 7) beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8) Love never faileth:

It's time for men...and women...to grow up.

Acts 17:30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

What a Saviour!