04.09.09
Living in a Selfish World
I recently checked my yahoo e-mail and as I went onto the main site, there was a piece that talks about how kids curb marital satisfaction. I thought to myself, has our society gotten so selfish that it despises it’s own young? The truth is that it has. That being true, this article floored me with its underlying premise. Our society places more emphasis on “being happy” than doing the right thing and being responsible. We seek to be immediately gratified with our marital relationship than our being proud of raising a new generation. All we have to do is look at our culture of immediate gratification and divorce culture to see the massive scar of selfishness and self-centeredness that runs through our society.
I wish I could say that I was above this but I can’t. I look at my own life and how I get stressed out by my own kids and how they do affect my marriage. We place undo focus on our kids that make them seem like a threat to our marriages. I realize that when I do this it is like looking through a distorted lens. It’s a lens that focuses on what I want and now what Jesus really calls us to do.
“The greatest among you will be your servant. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” Matthew 23:11-12
It’s something we all should aspire to…..
