Today’s Thought “Take Me Back” G. Ward

 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” John 3:4-5

Without cognizance as children we had great protection from our parents from vicious global and societal woes. I’m considering on this morning the security that my own parents shared with my three siblings and me. Growing up in the sixties and seventies for little COLORED (the ethnic description on my actual birth record) children could have been a tumultuous experience. Our acquaintance with racial disparity and injustice as children shouldn’t (ideally so) have been circumstantial unto any child’s development; therefore Black parents, very particularly, had to be very excellent teacher-motivationalists. Just think, at that time, we were without media and entertainment’s visual of hope. While the good guys wore white hats and the bad guy black, none were Negro. Moreover, radio was huge, but White stations didn’t highlight Black music, or perspective.

Seemingly, we’ve come a long way in a short time and there are appearances of great parenting in the same currently. My question continues to be for the motivation given children post the “Baby Boomer” (those born 1946-1964) era. Is a society of less parameter (i.e. government imposed freedom, along with equal protection) the neglected instruction from modern day parents causing more social permissiveness that leads to moral decay? The panacea for every man awaits what’s been a God ordained positioning from every parent unto their own child (cf. Deut.6:4-7). More substantive than preaching what lies ahead in exciting possibility thinking for young people, is an insistence in knowing The WHO behind both life and death ( Mt. 10:28)…

Happy Wednesday!