The Plight of Young Women
Today, I woke up and turned on Fox News. I do this every morning. I like to know what is going on in the world. I was told that Brittney Spears had a meltdown during an interview for OK magazine. Fox news stated that Ms. Spears used thousand dollar dresses to pick up her dogs droppings and to wipe her face and hands during a fried dinner lunch. The magazine said that if they published the pictures they took, it would ruin her career.
Yesterday, I woke up and turned on Fox news. As I said before, I do this every morning. I like to know what is going on. I was told that Lindsey Lohan was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated. She also had a felony amount of cocaine in her possession. she did this just a few weeks after being released from her second rehab stint.
During the late 1990's, a small group of young women exploded on the entertainment community. Disney produced several of these girls, but they were not the only creators. Paris Hilton was created by her parents. The Olsen twins were given to us by ABC television. Nicole Richey was a creation of the her father. All of these girls are young, beautiful, and sexy; and they influence young females to be the same.
When you look at the list of young female stars, and what has become of them, you are almost shocked. However, nothing is shocking anymore. It seems that our young female stars are all messed up. They either have eating disorders, or they are involved in drugs and alcohol. What may be the most shocking is that if you would have told me 5 years ago that Christian Aguilera would be the good one out of this group, I would have called you a liar.
Trend setting has become a major problem in our country. Young women and teenage girls are convinced that they need to act and behave like their favorite performers. I am so thankful that some trends change over time. Over the last few years, the trend in girl's clothing is to show less skin. Just a few years ago, the trend was the more skin the better. Young women felt pressured to show off their bodies. Many parents would all their teenage daughters to dress like street walkers. The fashioned industry told girls that they were not popular unless they wore short dresses, stomach exposing shirts, and low riding pants. American parents were more concerned with their girl's popularity than they were with their girl's morality. Thankfully, this trend is turning, but showing off the body is still very popular.
Christian parents must reject what our culture teaches our girls, and hold fast to the traditional understandings of womanhood. For years, girls were raised with the concept that it was their job to subdue their man. A young lady was to have high standards. Those high standards would cause a young man to pursue the same high standards. Simply put, women are the standard keepers of our culture. Men are going to rise up to what women expect of them. That being said, many of today's young women do not have high standards. Thus, men do not see the need to commit.
From a Pastoral perspective, it is difficult for me to teach young men to have high moral standards when their counterparts do not keep them. Young ladies cause young men to sin by showing off their bodies and tempting them mentally. Christian single women and teens need to keep in mind their duty to not tempt their suitors. They need to stand for high moral principles. They need to shun what is bad in our culture and embrace what is good. Our culture tells us that "Girls Gone Wild" is an acceptable activity for girls looking to have a good time. God tells us that our behavior and actions will be judged.
The plight of young women is a difficult thing in today's culture. They are told to act like young men. However, this behavior allows young men to sink deeper into their depravity. If a young girl wants to marry a man that is virtuous and strong. She then must decide that her personal integrity is more important than her popularity.
Yesterday, I woke up and turned on Fox news. As I said before, I do this every morning. I like to know what is going on. I was told that Lindsey Lohan was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated. She also had a felony amount of cocaine in her possession. she did this just a few weeks after being released from her second rehab stint.
During the late 1990's, a small group of young women exploded on the entertainment community. Disney produced several of these girls, but they were not the only creators. Paris Hilton was created by her parents. The Olsen twins were given to us by ABC television. Nicole Richey was a creation of the her father. All of these girls are young, beautiful, and sexy; and they influence young females to be the same.
When you look at the list of young female stars, and what has become of them, you are almost shocked. However, nothing is shocking anymore. It seems that our young female stars are all messed up. They either have eating disorders, or they are involved in drugs and alcohol. What may be the most shocking is that if you would have told me 5 years ago that Christian Aguilera would be the good one out of this group, I would have called you a liar.
Trend setting has become a major problem in our country. Young women and teenage girls are convinced that they need to act and behave like their favorite performers. I am so thankful that some trends change over time. Over the last few years, the trend in girl's clothing is to show less skin. Just a few years ago, the trend was the more skin the better. Young women felt pressured to show off their bodies. Many parents would all their teenage daughters to dress like street walkers. The fashioned industry told girls that they were not popular unless they wore short dresses, stomach exposing shirts, and low riding pants. American parents were more concerned with their girl's popularity than they were with their girl's morality. Thankfully, this trend is turning, but showing off the body is still very popular.
Christian parents must reject what our culture teaches our girls, and hold fast to the traditional understandings of womanhood. For years, girls were raised with the concept that it was their job to subdue their man. A young lady was to have high standards. Those high standards would cause a young man to pursue the same high standards. Simply put, women are the standard keepers of our culture. Men are going to rise up to what women expect of them. That being said, many of today's young women do not have high standards. Thus, men do not see the need to commit.
From a Pastoral perspective, it is difficult for me to teach young men to have high moral standards when their counterparts do not keep them. Young ladies cause young men to sin by showing off their bodies and tempting them mentally. Christian single women and teens need to keep in mind their duty to not tempt their suitors. They need to stand for high moral principles. They need to shun what is bad in our culture and embrace what is good. Our culture tells us that "Girls Gone Wild" is an acceptable activity for girls looking to have a good time. God tells us that our behavior and actions will be judged.
The plight of young women is a difficult thing in today's culture. They are told to act like young men. However, this behavior allows young men to sink deeper into their depravity. If a young girl wants to marry a man that is virtuous and strong. She then must decide that her personal integrity is more important than her popularity.
posted by Foundes Community Church @ 9:16 AM
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