Why Their Conscience Is Not Their Guide

Why Their Conscience Is Not Their Guide?

In recent years there has been a serious shift in values among our Turks and Caicos families in terms of ideals handed down to children. Have you noticed how parents are going out of their way to purchase their children the latest designer wear? Be it Fubu or Phat Farm or Tommy Hilfiger. But have you also noticed that many of these parents do not go out of their way to make sure their homework is done or that they are in fact learning something in school? Have you noticed that kids are walking around with cell phones strapped to them and some the latest model? But have you also noticed that many of these same parents do not make sure that their children have a Bible or that they go to Sunday School or Church? HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW MATERIALISTIC AND SUPERFICIAL OUR CHILDEN ARE BEING RAISED WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT FOR MATERIAL POSSESSIONS RATHER THAN GOOD MANNERS AND SPIRTUAL VALUES? Well, I have and I am actually sicken by this shift in recent years.

Tonight, I sat in a meeting and heard about the drug abuse and criminal activities among High School and College students: our future. And I questioned myself as to real fact that if our youth, our future does not realize they are the future and if parents don't realise that their kids are the future and if society on a whole continues to watch our future drink and smoke themselves into a drunken stupor and slowly poison their minds with drugs, where will we be as a people?

My mother is a very community minded person always cooking for community functions and playing for community events such as funerals, weddings and church services, including playing every Sunday morning in her own Church in South Caicos. Her mother raised her in the Church and ensured that she learnt a musical instrument. She in turn raised my siblings and to serve in any way we can in our community and she also made sure that we each learnt a musical instrument. Why am I saying this? There was a successive plan in my family not consciously I am sure but because they were raised that way, my mother and my grandmother raised their children that way. Parents are not making the Church an important institution in the lives of their children. Who will carry on the Churches if the children are not there to carry on? Who will play the instruments when the older serving persons are no longer able or alive? Churches are today starved of young blood and leaders because parents fail to realize the importance of the Church. And as it continued in my family, what would appear a successive plan, it will continue on in the families where parents don't take or send their children to Sunday School and Church, they in turn will most likely raise their children the same way. And we each can identify families that we know like that. Why am I babbling on about the Church?

Religion acts as a conscience for many persons and it guides persons down the right path even if in a round about way, they will get there. But where there is an absence of this, we will have what presently obtains in our society: Increased use of alcohol and other drugs among our young people, increased sexual activity and promiscuity and as a result teenage pregnancy, AIDs and other sexually transmitted diseases, cervical cancer. We will have an increase in petty and serious crimes. Why? Christian and Biblical