Children in the Marketplace
I often wonder how we ever manage to raise our children. Somehow they always seem to know how things should be done. The older they get the more they profess to know. The dawning of puberty coinciding with graduation to a high school , brings the inevitable mood swings and teenage arrogance. By the time they graduate, every suggestion you make may be discounted as old fashioned.
The first job cames along and soon they are in that know it all period of the third decade of their lifespans. You say “dont get involved”, they get involved, soon you’re bailing them out of the deep water they are about to drown in.
With ears glued to their favourite popstars, they soon adopt the total ignorance and attitude of a young idol shouting the odds at the older generation.
Luke 7:32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. But wisdom is justified of all her children.
Of course some grow up as ignorant as their parents , saying “Give up this religous nonsense and stop preaching to us, we have heard it all”
Christ experienced the same thing two thousand years ago. Imagine if He had listened to the company of fools shouting the odds. The only real sanity in this world filled with madness , greed, violence and arrogance would have disappeared , and any hope of the answers to the extremely important questions of life would have gone with it.
Those amongst the generation that listened to him personally survived the destruction of the Jewish kingdom , giving us insight into the richest wisdom in all the world. Nearly all the rest perished in the conflagration, some managed to escape and became the outcast’s of this world. I wonder if their offspring , have learn’t the lesson yet, that it is dangerous to fall into the hands of an angry God. It took them 1878 years to regain the permission to settle in the land they were given by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Yet their neighbours want them out, and they face conflict all the time.
Of course young popstars may think otherwise, while they surfeit on the temporary riches, indulgences and pleasures of this life. Irreligous behaviour reveals their ignorance of the reality of the Glorious doctrines of Christ and the glory of the eternal rewards to those who serve Him.
John 7:33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
