I guess this is the culture where we are more prone to read Facebook posts and blogs than any other educational and inspiring reading material. So this is a great platform for thought provoking discussions.
One of the latest posts I read was a lot of venting about
the SLAVIC COMMUNITY. The closed,
sin-keeping-a-secret, pushing girls to get married so young, keeping young people
uneducated, truck driving, showing off in their Mercedes, etc., etc.,
I have had my years of being mad at the Slavic Community and
all its dysfunction. And you know what
the real fact is? I AM the Slavic Community. And
so are You!!
We are all contributing to the community one way or
another. And so if we want to see change
– WE MUST CHANGE.
You see that girls are being pushed to get married
young? So many of you state that you all
got married young too. (Sorry, but
scientifically the brain continues to develop until Mid 20’s so anything under
25 is considered young, and rational thinking isn’t fully developed until then.) But the question now is how are YOU going to
raise YOUR DAUGHTERS and SONS? Are YOU
going to encourage them to get education, or continue to strive for the Slavic
Culture Lifestyle, of truck driving, construction working, medical assisting,
hygienists and not much more? Are YOU
going to continue the cultural pressure of marriage and the “sale rack” and
“clearance” mentality? (someone stated a quote that if you are over 25 you are on
the “sale rack” and if you are over 30 you are on “clearance”). It starts with You, and Me. WE need to humble ourselves first.
You and me are the Generation IN THE WILDERNESS. Our parents are part of the Exodus. God has moved the people out of Slavery, and
so it might take our community 40 years until the older generation dies out
(sorry to say), but because they continue to look back at all that they had in ‘Egypt’,
their traditions, their way of life, their enslaved thinking and their
unwillingness to trust God in this journey to the new promised land. We are in this transition. This is all we know. We see the problems in our community that
stem from the previous generation. But
are we making it any easier for the next?
We have it easy. Manna from
heaven. Our parents tried so very hard
to give us what we did not have. Gods
blessings are evident daily in so much materialistic wealth that we possess.
The community is filled with fancy car driving, constantly shopping, more and
more things acquiring aspirations. Oh
yeah, and we build huge church buildings too.
We lack nothing. We are so well
taken care of that we do not even realize it.
This is all we have ever known, just like children of the
wilderness. But what about the NEXT
GENERATION? What legacy are we leaving
them?
God IS trying to get our attention. The attention of OUR generation. US in the wilderness. We have so many young people dying in car
accidents, drowning and overdosing. The
generational hidden sins are being revealed.
Sexual addictions, dysfunctions, abuse, perversion, to name a few. We need to agree that WE NEED HELP. We need to ask God to Search OUR hearts, and
see if there is any hurtful way in ME (psalm 139:23). We need to allow Jesus to come in and REMODEL
our lives. And let me tell you, that Carpenter!! He
will!! He has been waiting. He has been
standing at the door and knocking!! It
is written to US, the believers. It's
the message To The Church “Those whom I
love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and REPENT, I stand at the door and knock.” (Revelation 3:20 Emphasis added) Will YOU let Him in? Will I?