Watching the second day of riots happening in Charlotte should raise a number of questions about who we are becoming as a nation.
Take for example if you live in Montana, you never see this kind of rioting stupidity because kids who are often raised in rural America are taught responsibilities growing up, like having chores to do each and every day. Today, in cities, kids are often given everything without responsibilities, all the way through college or they are living in inner cities without any parental structure to help them get out of poverty. When the middle class kids finish college they often haven’t learned the value of a dollar or the consequences of breaking your parent’s rules, let alone crossing your teachers or the police. Kids in poverty are taught by their home life and living conditions to expect and demand the government to supply all their needs, which in the end just makes them very entitled adults. Either way, kids are growing up expecting others to be responsible and not needing to be themselves.
So the one question and solution for today is, why are kids different in rural America than in the city? Learning responsibilities at an early age will either make or break their future, not how much they are given by family or government.
I’m so tired of hearing these screaming young adults that are just looking to blame their struggles on someone else’s parents, teachers etc. Instead of seeing themselves as having potential they just blame what they don’t have as being unjust. The whole concept of justice has become so twisted that few understand it.
So many riots today are more about destroying other people’s property because of irresponsible attitudes rather than injustice. Life often seems unfair, but maybe what seems unfair is in reality a lack of willingness to work hard and live responsibly. As I watch many rioters taunt police, I’m sure they have no intention of being contributing citizens, but rather selfish individuals looking to loot hard-working store owners.
As a Christian, the Scriptures encourage us to work hard to provide for our own needs and to gain enough to help others. It does not encourage us to give to people who are unwilling to work themselves.
1 Thes 4:11
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you, so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.
2 Thes 3:10-13
For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either. [11] For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies. [12] Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread. [13] But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary of doing good.
The bottom line is, don’t get fooled by the media propaganda that always blames people who succeed in life as being unfair. Maybe they worked hard and were rewarded because they did so.
Pastor Dale
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