Lessons Not Worth Learning

Many are the lessons we all will encounter in this drama called life. Many are the disappointments, victories, heartbreaks, loss of loved ones, broken promises, deals, lies, truths...people stuff! My mind reverts back to a time when adolescence was blooming and daring. The worst of lessons a youth shouldn't but probably will encounter are the demons of sex and profanity. Every tenuous line of advice or promise made by the opposite sex, or in today's society, the same sex usually equivocates the consequences associated with pregnancy or worse; social diseases which are more deadly now than ever. Profanity is just that, a perversion of the human language. I can honestly relate to how anger is usually non-threatening if profanity is remiss. However, your point is best delivered when one excludes profanity or demeaning connotations.

Even religion has misdirected many hearts away from faith-based organizations due to the constant inferences of buying one's way into the pearly gates or to be counted as a "good Christian-protestant if you pay according to man's interpretation of tithing to the organization. Not only has the institution adulterated the very essence of giving in the name of love and all that is godly and decent, but the fees attached to becoming a member of a said denomination is costly! Don't expect the assistance of certain church auxiliaries if your dues aren't paid in full, or delinquent. The lessons some have learned according to "Profit Dr. Preacher Black," is heartbreaking! If you sow one hundred dollars into their pocket, you will reap ZILCH! However, if you give according to your heart's conviction, not your pocket's worth, then I believe God does honor sacrifice and a cheerful giver.

Remember the throwback sitcom; "Love and Marriage?" There was so much hilarity to the show's dialogue that it was really hard not to laugh at the husband's reasoning. Though every dilemma he encountered was due to his one-track mind, he never "got it!" So is the life of the skeptic, or the unrelenting "free spirit." The skeptic's mantra is calculated and pessimistic, while the free-thinker is lawless and care-free.

We don't have the luxury of learning lessons we should've have mastered in our youth when we are middle-aged. There are some lessons no life which serve no worthy purpose whatsoever. Smoking crack, or lighting a cigarette while pumping gas, or beating your children because you're angry, shoplifting as a profession, or exuding a character around children which leads to lawlessness is worth absolutely nothing worthy of bragging rights. If the truth be told, we have a society which doesn't mind exposing their secrets openly and that in itself should give us all a peep into ignorance and avoid the embarrassment at every cost. Society has ingeniously discarded every moral ingredient of wholesomeness. It actually takes a pandemic hardship to provoke humanity to help humanity. Where is the lesson?

The Bible teaches our household that every good and perfect gift; love, forgiveness, and honesty, which comes from the Father of Lights, not the Father of Lies is a matter of searching for the God of truth and eternal life! A God which is Spirit. A God who thought it not robbery to manifest His son in the guise of human flesh, to show humanity that this earthly pilgrimage is temporal, and we have a life beyond this pain and suffering. Without a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, a life of learning lessons which only reward eternal damnation, or nothingness isn't worth learning. Learn Christ and watch life reveal its true self.

May Will 9/17