Anne's Lamentations #2

I've already lamented and I will lament again. Our world is getting more and more vain and conceited. People constantly search and seek for personal gain. We call it individual rights. We say that we have to be true to our hearts and selves.

What's in it for me?
What has it got to do with me?
Why can't i?
Why is this happening to me?
What about me?
My rights, my chances, my dreams, my hurts, my choices, my misery...

The chart below shows the difference in values that has overtaken our society, our way of thinking and living.

(chart taken from Old Testament Today, Walton & Hill, Zondervan)

I don't believe we should only blame it on our society that has molded us this way. Every culture has its pros and cons. And we are no different then the guy on the street if we leave it at that. We can make a difference to change first ourselves. We can touch the people around us with different value, a biblical standpoint that shouts aloud to love our neighbours as ourselves. What a bold statement that is for today's world.

We live in a community and that will never change no matter where we run. We belong to a family that is the root of a community that will never change no matter how we deny. We cannot be selfish or self-seeking. Look at what other nations have become when they teach their children to seek after self and individuality. What has started out as a correction of pass values of oppression has turned into another form of societal depreciation. What kind of a value do we wanna pass on?

Let us be different.....
Let us change history.....