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As our society continues to shed the idea of individual responsibility and personal self-restraint it is important to consider: Can society function without out it?
If everybody does what she/he wants, when he/she wants without regard for others, without regard for laws, and without regard for morality, won’t chaos result? And that is happening.
My wife and I and a couple of friends prayer walk regularly in a neighborhood in Nashville that could be the definition of chaos. Drug dealers stand on the street and hold out plastic bags as cars drive by. Prostitutes roam the streets and openly solicit their business. We hear about shootings and killings in the neighborhood frequently and most of them don’t make the paper. Trash is scattered everywhere. Little children being pulled down the street by the hand, have cold, empty looks on their faces.
We pray from our hearts and people are often in tears. It is amazing to see a tough looking individual soften before your eyes. People who grow up surround by chaos are desperate for heart-felt love and compassion. They hug us and thank us. One very tough looking guy surrounded by rough looking women said after we held his hands and prayed for him: “If I had grown up under a flag like that I would be a different man.” He then took out some money and gave it to us “for the children.’
I work with addicted men who have abandoned self-restraint and their lives and the lives of their families are a mess. They have to learn self-restraint or they will continue to self-destruct, and that is very difficult for them, as it is for us all.
Our society discards self-restraint and morality to its own peril. Isn’t it time to begin to reverse the trend of our downward slide into chaos? |
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