Saturday, August 17, 2024
Topic: "The Christian Faces Anti-Values"
Text: 2 Timothy 2:22-26
22. Flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 23. Avoid foolish and useless arguments, knowing that they breed quarrels. 24. Now a servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but must be gentle with all, able to teach, patient; 25. but with gentleness he must correct those who oppose him, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, 26. and that, having come to their senses, they will escape from the snare of the devil, who has taken them by force to do his will.
Let us remember:
The Christian must face anti-values by selecting his daily activities. He must flee the passions of youth that expose him to anti-values. The passions of youth, in general, are not a danger. But everything depends on which passions, and everything changes when these passions lead to addiction; if they take priority over our faith in God; or even over good social morality. Today, the passions of youth are no longer those of the time of the apostles. It is more serious than at the time of the early church. The majority of the passions of today's youth are on the border of anti-values. We see nowadays a strong addiction to the consumption of the net with its derivatives of pornography, insults on social networks, attacks against other Internet users under unknown pseudonyms, profanations, fake news, contempt for institutions ... Some passions of the youth that are on the side of anti-values are drugs, orgies, pedophilia, clans and other street gangs, robbery and verbal aggression, "black baby" aggression, sexual assault, graffiti on public or private buildings and the list is not exhaustive. Let us flee these bad passions and return to our common sense through repentance, God will free us from the traps of the devil, who has taken hold of us to submit us to his will. Excellent Saturday. Amen
Alain Louz.-
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