The world we live in

WE live in a time when everyone seems to sleep all day and stay up all night.
A time when our generation is markedly intoxicated, starting from the illiterate youths out in the street right up to the well-off, highly educated men and women in the
highest offices of Papua New Guinea.
We live in a time when one drinks to drown his sorrows only to resurface with them 10 times worse off, a time when millions of people enjoy taking in fumes of poison from a roll of cigar as if there isn’t fresh air all around and generally, a time when we know drugs are bad but consume it anyway.
We live in a time when we suffocate ourselves by cutting down millions of trees.
We live in a time of injustice, when families and homes are displaced by five-star hotels to accommodate tourists and expatriates, when we advocate world peace but still hold grudges and when we live in a democratic country but still read about suppressed rights.
We live in an age when abnormal is the new normal, when 15-year-old girls look more like mature women under the cover of too much make-up and indecent clothing, when men think they are women and women think they are men, where kids are having kids, and when moms are paying all the bills.
We live in a time when marriage, a covenant once sacred, is now trampled upon and abused.
We live in a time of selfishness, when we pray for deliverance when we should be praying for forgiveness, when we proclaim our goodness but cannot prove our faithfulness, and when we claim to have faith but are too slack to demonstrate it.
We live in a time when our selfishness has blinded us so much so that we perceive little as nothing, enough as not that sufficient and more only paves way for more.
We live in a time when we allow position and possession to add value to our self-image and we lose sight of our marred state of being that can only be redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ.
In these times, there is a tendency to become so familiar with these existing conditions that we lose sight of the significance of these conditions.
Can we please stop pretending that all these things are normal?
And if we come to ascertain that it’s normal, can we be outraged about it?
Truly, if there be any one time in this world’s age that we should stop and evaluate our lives, that time is now, because it may only be a matter of time till the conventional ways of this world unobtrusively seep into our lives and becomes accepted as a part of our lives.
Or sadly, it already has and we can only hope that God will help us all, especially the generation that is to come.

Geroldyn Terry
Games Village police barracks