God Change Me Please!

I never saw anything about the movie "Shades of Grey" except the title, so I had no idea it was as bad as I am hearing now.

Where are those phony women's libbers when it comes to things like this? They claim to be for women, but endorse the killing of women's babies and remain silent when a raunchy movie like this, that degrades and abuses women, comes out.

They also remain silent about the abuse of women in Islam.

And, the world is angry at Christianity that elevates a woman to protective status? How backward is this?

Christ gave clear instructions to men to protect and nurture their wives, but the world prefers the denigration of women as if likened to beaten dog status over the love and protection they are afforded by godly spiritual men.

We know who is behind all this hate, it is the devil himself. The further we get from the principles of God and His Word the Bible, the more cruel we can expect the world to become, the less courteous and kind.

We used to live in a world that would protect the women and children first in a disaster such as a sinking ship. The men would remain on board, going down with the ship to be able to save the more vulnerable members of society.

Now we have the men throwing the women and children over the side of the ship to save themselves, at least figuratively speaking. Do the women's libbers realize that they have caused a great regression in the treatment of women by demanding things that never were the woman's roles.

Men didn't mistreat women because they were homemakers, many men elevated them for their sacrifice to the family. Now we have men who are less kind and helpful because they have been trained to treat women like another man, a woman is on her own without help because she wanted what she thought was her independence. Sadly some of us didn't follow the libbers but get treated like them anyway, we take the brunt of their foolishness.

It isn't the fault of one gender over another, so much as it is the rejection of Christ as the reason for what we do in our lives. Ungodly women pushed for status above men and ungodly men bought into it.

There are very godly men and women who treat one another as they should, although rare, just as there are ungodly men and women who do not treat one another as they should, becoming the norm. It isn't about gender, it is about ungodliness. When there is ungodliness, there is bitterness and strife, lack of empathy for others and total preoccupation with our individual desires. Each generation becoming worse than the last.

I no longer have much confidence in being able to pass on the wisdom God has shown me, because the younger generation for the most part, are so full of themselves, they will not listen to any instruction unless it elevates them, and much correction is needed, but it is rare that they will receive it.

It is truly "as in the days of Noah", when everyone thinks they are right and no one will listen to correction or instruction, they are angry if they are chastised. Just spend a few days on facebook, take time to correct wrong theology or attitudes and see what happens, anger and intimidation are much of what we encounter.

The young person of 30 has half the life experience but act as though they have twice the life experience of the one who has passed through more than 60 years of their life. They just don't listen long enough to glean the nuggets of wisdom that the older folks have accumulated. Sadly these same young people are passing this resistance on to their children, the rebellion that rejects the ways of God in favor of their own limited worldly wisdom.

We are truly living in the last days. The only hope for any individual is to ask God what is in each of us, humbly desiring to know what God knows about us, then praying for the needed change in our souls.