In recently watching television, and taking in some most impressive documentaries on life in other countries, especially regarding the life of some of the children in those countries, my mind was inspired to write this.
The shows were on Discovery Channel called "Atlas". On this evening as I watched, first the life of a young 14 year old girl in South Africa, who must walk three miles to and from school everyday, studying hard to pass exams, so she might have a better life for her family and then later the life of a 14 year old in Egypt, my mind was stirred by their sacrifice. The little African girl not only gets herself up in the morning but she must tend to all her brothers and sisters, meals, clothing and care, every day while her parents work in the mines, and arent able to return home but once a month. She works hard and studies hard in hope of improving not just her lot in life but that of her parents, brothers and sisters.
Meanwhile back in American children are given what every they ask for and if not, they throw temper tantrums until they do. Their wants are always expectant of their parents to give to them, not to make sacrifice that their parents may have something more in life. Thus our nursing homes are full in America!
I was impressed with the sacrfice of the child in South Africa, even more with the next show on Egypt. Here in Cairo, riding a 1950's style bicycle, with a huge crate on his head full of bread, he rides the streets through traffic of vehicles and people, zigging and zagging through this with one hand on the handlebars and the other holding the crate on his head. He works 7 days a week, for 15 hours a day, and earns $6.00 per a day's work. He keeps back a $1.00 for himself to live on each day, and puts the other away. Why does this child work like this? This is a Muslim, child not a Christianized American child, this is a child that holds up to this kind of responsibility daily because of the love of his parents. The parents live in a very poor village outside of Cairo. They are so poor and elderly, that he alone has taken to the streets to work like this for their sake! He works especially hard delivering bread at the end of Ramaddan, the annual fasting and worship time of the year, where all the richer Muslims come together and serve the poor in a feast at the end of this time. The story closes with the child's return home to take his parents the money he has saved from his labor and gifts to his brothers and sisters. This is a child who lives and works in sacrifice everyday. You can't get most children in America to do chores without whining of some sort. Not unless they are promised some special pay or purchase for themselves.
I was impressed with His smile and his love for his family!.
Last Wednesday, I spent sometime loooking at You Tube videos of people in South America. I came across a video of a tribe in the Amazon, just recently discovered there, untouched by today's world. I found an interesting comment below on the video, someone had written, "Leave these people alone, we don't need anymore Christianized Wal Mart shopppers. It amazes me how truth can come from the lips of others often, even if it seems to be Anti-Christian to most religious folks.
The truth is the children of this country don't even have a clue about the sacrifice their own parents make everyday for them in this world. The painstaking having to drag yourself out of bed, even at times when you physically are feeling ill, to go to work all day in a dog eat dog world to bring home the simple things of life, like paying for food and shelter for their children. Yet in all this parents in this country die at the hands of their children who often in their anger over not getting what they want, have murdered their parents. For God's sake, what is wrong with American children...I'll tell you.. they bought into the idea that they are supposed to sacrifice for them 100%.. To quote another writer, this write said this:
"One of the myths of parenting is that it requires 100% self-sacrifice in order to meet the needs of the child. If this were true, the process of achieving this would leave the parent with nothing left of who they uniquely are to offer to their child. Do not sacrifice everything for the child, or you will find yourself empty, and your external relationships evaporated. The “100% self sacrifice” model of parenting is dangerous and unhealthy for the entire family".
America has created the children of "It's All About Me"
Why? Because there are those in this country including,parents who have been fed the false gospel of "it's all about me", they to often live this out in their lives.
We only need to look to the most terroristic act in the world commited daily in this country, ABORTION! One and half million unborn children die at the hands of these same adults who brought up in a culture of not knowing true sacrifice for others then themselves every year. Where did this monster come from in a country that claims itself to be Christian. It comes from a false teaching that pervases America, that Jesus came so we could all be comfortable with our lives, the Health, Wealth and Prosperity message as been the most pervasive of these. The Joel Olsteen's of American "Christianity" keep delivering the "feel good" messages without a hint at suffering. They act is if we ARE THE WORLD! Everything these teachers and preachers put forth is contrary to all Christians historically worldwide whoever made a life in Christ! They suffered much as our Saviour did. The Bible says he who suffers in the flesh ceases from sin! Thus we have a country full of sin, for the message in America would never stand in third world countries where not only children make sacrifice daily for those they love and care about, but where more than 95% of the toys, clothes, and other goodies, like cell phones, IPOD's and the like aren't found. Places where people have no fancy shiny automobiles, no flashy clothes, where food and shelter are appreciated for what they are gifts from God, and all else is expendable and not needed, nor most often not affordable.
In the end my message is like that of the commentator on the You Tube page, leave these people alone, don't give then what America has for God's sake!
Leave these children alone they aren't give me, give me babies like we have here in America, Muslim or other, they understand sacrifice and in light of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ, they probably have more light than our churched children here in America..
At the end of all things, I know that their sacrifice doesnt mean anything toward their eternal salvation.. but who said salvation isnt about this life? I believe that God see's these Children and loves them, and reveals Himself to them and even may bring them the light of the TRUE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, though in truth their young lives reveal more of it then most of any children I have yet to see in America!
What does that say for the children here in America?
They don't don't understand sacrificial living, they are the "GIVE ME GENERATION", not the let me "GIVE TO YOU", children you can find in many other places in the world, regardless of their religious beliefs, they show more of who God is, through their lives lived then most children in America, who have been preached a false gospel of promised prosperity that they are suppose to deserve. Our problem is love is not taught to children by giving them everything they demand, love is taught when they learn sacrifice for others. Is this not the love of God, that God so loved the world HE GAVE His only begotten Son, that who so ever should believe in Him shall have eternal life and shall not perish!
Let our children learn from others, give them some good programming on television to watch besides MTV and it's likes. Children's perceptions of how life is to be lived comes first from their parents, then those things that they spend their other time doing.. Believe it, these are the facts. What lesson are you teaching your children?
Let it be the lesson of sacrifice but let it be a lesson whereby they must learn to sacrifice as well for others.
With love and prayers for our children, I close.
Doctor J.
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