YOUTHS AND TODAY’S SEX APPEAL

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about; seeking whom he may devour – 1 Pet 5:8

A couple of months ago, I heard on the local news that an eighteen year old girl died as a result of abortion complications. About four hours later, I heard again that a ten year old girl in Romania gave birth. How old was the father? Thirteen years! Such is the state of the world we live in today.

Sex is a word that has become so common that it cannot be ruled out of our everyday activities. We often hear of phrases like sexy outfits, sexy men/women, safe sex, sex change, sexy look etc and other immoral terms that make us want to plug our ears. Sex has become a phenomenon that no one can honestly say he is not bothered about.

The Scripture says our enemy is walking about seeking whom to devour. Remember that when the sons of God came to present themselves before God, the devil also came. When God asked him where he had been, his response was that he was going to and fro in the earth, walking up and down in it. Can we say his response typifies a man without mission? Wrong! His answer implied that he was a man on mission: to devour and he has never rested since then.

One of the tools that the enemy is actively using these days to lure people into sin is sex appeal through the media. Sex has become the number one marketing tool today. Pictures, lyrics, mottos, slogans, etc promoting sexual immorality abound all over the place in the marketing sector. It’s no surprise to see contraceptive companies using youths in their various adverts.

The question we need to ask at this point is why are they focusing so much on this age group? The reason is because they see them as fertile ground to grow their seed of destruction. Youths generally don’t forget such things when they come in contact with them. Their energy and curiosity often push them to the point of experimenting what they see or hear. This is the ultimate gateway to sexual perversion and immorality.

The youths need to be on guard these days and Christians need to rise up and cry to God. We cannot sit down, fold our hands, and allow this evil trend to continue. We must reprove every work of darkness. We need to continually educate our youths that any form of involvement in sex, no matter how slight it may seem will definitely attract God’s judgment.

 

God says He will judge the immoral and adulterers (Heb 13:4). Everything the Lord says must come to pass. If the Lord says He will judge a man, nothing and absolutely nothing, can save such a fellow except the mercy of God.

Brethren, we are soldiers of the Lord and will continue to keep watch over His flocks. Though ordinary people may not see any devil behind today’s sex appeal, we are not ignorant of his devices. May God bestow upon us the grace to stand against every sexual immorality.

THE LONELY SEED

A seed
A lonely seed
Hustling for a place
In mother earth’s base

He grows
Fending for himself
Attacked
By pest
By drought
By every agent of hazard

Will he die?
Will he faint?

He grows
Seizing not a chance to cease
With much endurance
And such perseverance
That overwhelm

He counts
Days in, days out
Months in, months out
Years in, years out
Seasons come, seasons go

Alas!
The radicle is now root
The stem is now trunk
The seed is now tree
Thus is born a tree

PS: A Nigerian graduate like the seed is subjected to all forms of conditions in trying to secure a job. He finds himself being tossed from one fake employment agency to another under the scorching sun and freezing rain. He has written nearly all types of graduate test available; attended uncountable number of interviews. He looks his life over, nobody to help. He remembers how ashamed he feels every time he meets any of his old friends. The good news is that no particular condition can remain for ever. There is somebody who will never fail you even when men have turned their backs on you. He is a friend that sticks closer than a brother. He is Lord Jesus. Invite Him today into your situation and let Him bear that burden for you. And just like the seed you will become established.

ORDER FROM CHAOS

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the surface of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light – Gen 1:1 -3

The present condition of the human society looks like that which may crash at any moment. Living a normal healthy life these days seems like an illusion. Managing work and family simultaneously has become a task which only the angels could handle. People are really finding it hard to cope.

Unemployment and underemployment are factors that are forever tightening their leash on the neck of the youths. This has seriously affected the marriage institution; who wants to add another to his overweighed burden? Politics, the lion roaring in every sphere of human endeavor, is not left out of the issue. The truth cannot be farfetched that the human society is in chaos.

The Scripture makes us to understand that when the heaven and the earth were created, the earth was without form and void; the earth was in a chaotic state. The interesting thing in this account is that in that chaotic situation, God saw a beautiful earth. God saw an earth with awesome vegetation, perfect landscape and wonderful creatures. Even though man has really tried to desecrate it through pollution and other un-environmental practices, this beautiful planet came out of a chaos.

We must come to the realization that no matter how chaotic and threatening our condition may be, something beautiful can still come out of it. Just as the darkness preceded light, chaos is the herald of peace in our lives. We can only experience a breakthrough after we have passed through the dark phase. All the mighty men of old that did exploits for the Lord also experienced the dark phase at one time or the other in their lives.

The only one that can bring about a change in our situation is God. Human wisdom is totally out of the question. We can never amount to anything in this mortality without God. Except God intervenes in our situation, darkness would continue to overwhelm us. The light can only come at God’s command: when it comes, it’s so powerful that even the darkness is confused (Jn 1:5).

Don’t ever allow the enemy to deceive you that all is lost. God can still do it. It is never too late. Invite Him into your situation and allow Him make possible that impossible.

MY VILLAGE

In a village called Poverty

In a state called Hunger

In a country called Corruption

There I live

The north side

Of my village is bounded by

Insecurity village

While the south side is bounded by

Unemployment village

My village is ruled by

An awesome and fearsome fellow

A character called

Chief Bad Leadership

As an administrator

With whips and guns

He rules us

Pauperizing and traumatizing us

Lest we have the courage

To challenge his leadership

As a physician

Our youths he experiments on

Constantly altering their brain composition

Making of them creatures

Whose thoughts and actions

Are worse than mere animals’

Because of this, you see

Our youths are often into

All forms of vice and crime

While the elders watch

To the detriment of my village

Our village

Where we all live

PS: The form of leadership we run in this country has succeeded in producing all types of deviant characters. People are only thinking of crimes they can commit to enrich themselves. Until the Christians, whom God has appointed as elders and watchmen over the city do something about it through intercession and evangelism, the situation will only continue to get worse