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What's really amazing is the people who think we're the ones out of synch with reality. People who think that "right" and "wrong" change with the passage of time, like weather, or leaves turning colors.

"Well, it used to be wrong to have sex with 20 boyfriends before age 20, but now it's cool".

And I say this from the vantage point of someone who really went to the depths of some pretty dangerous and shameful behavior, learned my lesson, and can see things a lot more clearly. I look back on my life and see some wrecks along the way, with many sad tales, narrow escapes and bitter regrets.

If anything I say can help even one person learn to avoid the pitfalls of instant gratification, or following the herd because everyone else is going that way, withstand being pressued into wrong just in order to feel liked or accepted, or gain a little inner conviction that God does exist, and it does matter to Him what choices we make - I'll be happy.

If anything I say can help even one person learn to avoid the pitfalls of instant gratification, or following the herd because everyone else is going that way, withstand being pressued into wrong just in order to feel liked or accepted, or gain a little inner conviction that God does exist, and it does matter to Him what choices we make - I'll be happy.

I have another thought too, I think a lot of this is also cause by our rampant consumerist society. Glenn Beck was talking about this one day last week on his show. Commercialism and consumerism has it's places, sure, but when we start adopting a mentality of having it all now and buying to keep up with the Joneses and so on, we run into problems both financially and spiritually. Everyone wants the latest HDTV, car, $350K house and are ill able to afford it but are willing to chase it at the expense of Godly living, family and so on.