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So many people approaching elderly status are experiencing this modern phenomenon of elder abandonment. The adult children of our day have been raised to love themselves above anyone else, they do not make themselves available to the needs of others not even their parents. Even many who claim to be Christian base their worship on their desires and emotions rather than on God's Word.
When someone is gone from us for that long and we know they don't want us, then we lose the desire to try and even the emotional connection to them.
This is a common story now among many of the older generation. We must depend on the Lord for our help and support more than ever before. Hallelujah we have Him.
My encouragement is to refuse to take it personally, we are living in the 2 Timothy 3 generation of nearly complete and total selfishness. These angry and entitled people if they read my post would not be ashamed, they would only be angry.
Jeremiah 6:14-16 "…14 They have dressed the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all. 15 Were they ashamed of the abomination they committed? No, they were not at all ashamed. They did not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD. 16 This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’…"
The generation of today does just enough to feel like they have done something to support their parents hoping it will not interfere with their own pleasures. Then there are those who do not want their parents but will want an inheritance at the end of the parents lives. They treat God the same way they treat their parents. These entitled people want God to protect them, keeping them safe and healthy while ignoring His commands and principles until they need something from Him.
Yes, it is true, adults treat one another the same way they treat God. They take what they can get, hope to be seen as special all the while ignoring Him in every way. They use His Word the Bible to cherry pick what they like while ignoring everything else in His Word.
Proverbs 30:14-16 "…14 there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth, and the needy from among men. 15 The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, “Enough!”: 16 Sheol, the barren womb, land that is never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, “Enough!”"
We can love our children from afar through prayer, and when they show little to no interest in us we must carry on with our own lives. When we are in need we must depend on the Lord to care for us His way. God will not abandon His children!
Lastly, praise the Lord for those children who have seen the value of their parents and are resolved to attend to them in their old age. These are few and far between but they are out there and we must acknowledge them.
1 Timothy 5:4
"4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God."
1 Timothy 5:8
"8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."
So many people approaching elderly status are experiencing this modern phenomenon of elder abandonment. The adult children of our day have been raised to love themselves above anyone else, they do not make themselves available to the needs of others not even their parents. Even many who claim to be Christian base their worship on their desires and emotions rather than on God's Word.
When someone is gone from us for that long and we know they don't want us, then we lose the desire to try and even the emotional connection to them.
This is a common story now among many of the older generation. We must depend on the Lord for our help and support more than ever before. Hallelujah we have Him.
My encouragement is to refuse to take it personally, we are living in the 2 Timothy 3 generation of nearly complete and total selfishness. These angry and entitled people if they read my post would not be ashamed, they would only be angry.
Jeremiah 6:14-16 "…14 They have dressed the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all. 15 Were they ashamed of the abomination they committed? No, they were not at all ashamed. They did not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD. 16 This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’…"
The generation of today does just enough to feel like they have done something to support their parents hoping it will not interfere with their own pleasures. Then there are those who do not want their parents but will want an inheritance at the end of the parents lives. They treat God the same way they treat their parents. These entitled people want God to protect them, keeping them safe and healthy while ignoring His commands and principles until they need something from Him.
Yes, it is true, adults treat one another the same way they treat God. They take what they can get, hope to be seen as special all the while ignoring Him in every way. They use His Word the Bible to cherry pick what they like while ignoring everything else in His Word.
Proverbs 30:14-16 "…14 there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth, and the needy from among men. 15 The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, “Enough!”: 16 Sheol, the barren womb, land that is never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, “Enough!”"
We can love our children from afar through prayer, and when they show little to no interest in us we must carry on with our own lives. When we are in need we must depend on the Lord to care for us His way. God will not abandon His children!
Lastly, praise the Lord for those children who have seen the value of their parents and are resolved to attend to them in their old age. These are few and far between but they are out there and we must acknowledge them.
1 Timothy 5:4
"4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God."
1 Timothy 5:8
"8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."
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