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Apples of Gold
Radio Script for November 3, 2009
“The Hook-Up Culture”
Hello, I’m Doug Apple…with Apples of Gold.
More and more young people are “hooking up” just for the thrill of it, no relationship required.
That’s according to an article in Psychology Today called “Passion in a Hook-Up Culture.”
That doesn’t surprise me at all as our nation continues its moral slide.
By moral slide I mean that the moral boundaries are coming down. We used to have higher walls to keep people away from immorality.
Oh, I know, people have always been immoral. But immorality is bad for society, and society used to take a stronger stand against it, or at least frown on it, or keep it hush-hush.
The same article says that the more “hook up” partners people have, the less likely they are to have a stable marriage.
So follow the timeline. Lower moral boundaries lead to more hook ups. More hook ups lead to unstable marriages. Unstable marriages lead to broken homes and fractured children. Fractured children seek out relief, and many find it in hook ups, which starts the cycle all over again.
Now Psychology Today is far from a Christian publication, and yet this article says that even they are concerned about the current changes in dating.
I just look at it like this. God has the perfect way, and everything else leads to varying degrees of brokenness.
God says some things are wrong. They are sinful and evil. They should not be done.
Is that just to spoil the fun? Goodness no. It’s to prevent the damage that we are seeing right now, damage such that even Psychology Today recognizes it.
People can’t just let their sinful nature run wild and expect no consequences.
And it’s that same sinful nature that mocks God, that says His ways are old-fashioned or out of touch. Even President Obama has looked at some of the traditional moral boundaries and instead of reinforcing them, he refers to them as tired, old ideas.
Psalm 19:7 says, “…the statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple.”
Take a simple, average young couple. They aren’t part of the glitterati. They’re just average folks – but! – they decide to follow the statutes of the Lord. They do what God says is right, and they avoid what God says is wrong. What will happen to them?
They will grow wise.
The statutes of the Lord make wise the simple.
I’ve seen it in my own life. In every area that I have simply followed the Lord’s statutes, I can look back over time and see how He has blessed me with His wisdom. I can see the good fruit that comes from doing things His way. And I can also look back at other people over time and see what happened to those who didn’t follow the Lord’s statutes.
You can study this scientifically. Cause and effect. Decision and result. Action and consequence. You freely choose a path, but where does it lead? And if enough people choose that path, where does it lead society?
“But Doug, we are free to pursue happiness.”
Is divorce happiness? Is a series of broken relationships happiness? Unstable homes and children with no foundation?
Psychology Today won’t come to this conclusion because they don’t believe in God. They probably won’t come to any conclusion because, after all, we are just animals evolving like monkeys or pigs or fruit flies.
But to me the conclusion is obvious. The less young people follow the statutes of the Lord, the more broken the next generation will be.
So it’s the job of the older generations to shine a light on where that road leads. We older folks need to build up the moral boundaries – not to spoil the fun, but to prevent the heartache and damage.
God’s ways are the best ways, and we need to share them, early and often!
Yes, these young people may be simple as they cave in to their flesh, but there is good news!
The statutes of the Lord make wise the simple.
Comments?
E-mail me: dougapple@wave94.com.
May God bless you today! With Apples of Gold…I’m Doug Apple.
Here is the complete Psychology Today article: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/love-bytes/200910/passion-in-hook-culture
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Why “The Arrow’s Tip”? Each morning, after diligently seeking the Lord, I write Apples of Gold. Then before I release it to the public I pray one final prayer, “Lord, send forth your arrows.” I envision Apples of Gold as arrows, tips dipped in the river of the water of life that flows from the throne of God (Rev. 22:1), sailing toward the hearts and minds of men and women around the world.
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