What Can You Do?

Often we are faced with challenging situations. There’s the friend who wants us to go to the party and we know there will be some questionable things going on.

We have the friend who asks us to help them do something that isn’t extremely bad, but still breaks some rule.

We are in a day and age when morality is put into question. We are bombarded with tv shows and movies that show it to be normal to be “bad”, to show that it’s okay to be unfaithful. It’s okay to look, okay to be a jerk, okay to look out for numer 1.

And it’s slowly becoming a reality. I saw a news clip that horrified me of a lady begin beaten by a man in a public place while ten people just stood there filming on their cell phones. What’s more the ladies son about 4 was the only one trying to get the man off his mother.

Everyone says we are in such a sad state. But what few realize is that the breakdown doesn’t just happen overnight. We don’t just wake up one morning and there are no values. We’ve become desensitized. Desensitized to people’s pain, desensitized to things that are wrong. Desensitized to lust, to cheating, to violence.

Morals and values are important and we can get it back. But you have to want it. You have to want to stop making questionable decisions. You have to want to care about others more than yourself. You have to want to be faithful.

Don’t try to figure out what is wrong with the world. Try to figure out what you can change.