It’s not just a pill to kill pain it’s an addiction to some to pass time. It can be dangerous to you and your loved ones. Although I never touched them, I was around them. Not necessarily at home but among friends. Trying to fit in with groups at school was never my thing. I never dressed in the current style, sometimes I would see girls dressed alike and how excited they would get. They would talk about where they got their clothes and how much they paid for them. They would see me, roll their eyes and walk away. I didn’t have a big crowd of friends during my school years. I went to school did what I had to do and went home. On the weekend, I would help my mom around the house. Sunday, was my day. I would go to church and even there, I didn’t have many friends. Some criticized me, some would tell me what to wear, what I’m doing wrong, who I should ask for a ride to church and who I should hang around with and stay away from. I did what my heart told me to do. Some decisions where painful, but they were my decisions, I learned from them and moved on.
One day I was invited to a party. My first party ever, not knowing what I was getting into. I walked in and drugs everywhere, alcohol, couples kissing and all kinds of things I wasn’t used to. This person, who I thought was my friend, was trying to fit in with the wrong crowd. She didn’t let me go home, she thought I would tell and get all of them into trouble. I told her, “I won’t go but I won’t do what you are doing either” Her boyfriend locked me in their bathroom with a strip of cocaine on the sink. He then was screaming from the other side of the door, ‘we are not letting you out until you take that!’ I could hear everyone laughing. It was a horrible experience, the kind that you never forget and the kind you wish you could. It’s then when you learn who your real friends are.
The reason I share this with you is because I saw several lives lost due to drugs. Innocent people paid the price for someone else’s selfishness. Even now, we still see family struggling with their teenagers making the wrong decisions and doing what they want! You can only do so much to help, sometimes they don’t want your help, but as a parent you do it anyway because it’s your job and you want the best for your child. Some listen, some don’t!
A loved one passed on, a baby girl, because the people responsible for her were doing drugs and got lost in them. A friend went to jail, defending herself from an ex-boyfriend who did drugs. When she went before the judge the next morning, he read her case, shook his head and said, “Unbelievable” and dismissed the charges. The one that should have gone to jail was him, but since she threw the first punch, they took her, the victim!
These are only two examples. TONS of innocent lives are lost do to drugs every day. Drugs are still a big way for teens, and some adults, to use to pass time and / or to escape all responsibilities. But the reality of it all is it makes you do things that cannot be control under the influence, and hurt others in the process plus it can hunt you for years!
To the day I hear stories of friends still terrified that their pass would come hunt them down. A friend recently heard that a family member is dating an ex-boyfriend who is friends with her ex, who did drugs. Back when she learned he was involved in drugs, she wanted nothing to do with him. He stalk her, he would break into her house and tried to run her off the road. He doesn’t know where she lives now, but with her family member dating a friend of his, she’s afraid that soon will change.
Then you have people who have innocent children in their homes while doing the drug, and what’s worse, it’s not even their child, they are babysitting them! When my friend found out her child was in a home where they did drugs, she was terrified and upset! The sad part is, they were family members and thought nothing was wrong with it.
Innocent lives shouldn’t have to pay the consequences! We live in a society where if you warn someone, like a case worker or a police officer about a drug problem, they don’t do anything unless someone gets hurt, and I’m sure they are just following rules or some sort of policy. To think a child is better off with their parents without taking into consideration their selfish drug addiction status and go by the book instead of going by a family member who knows best, is murder!! And all they can say is, “oh I didn’t know”
We have become a very selfish society…and it’s showing through our kids! We become afraid of our own words, our own beliefs, our own abilities to raise a child; because we are scared to hurt their feelings? I refuse to allow my child to be disrespectful to an adult, to fall into the statistics and will not turn a blind eye when they are doing something wrong. So many parents say “well there just kids, what could I have done?”Hello? Did we forget discipline who is the parent here? We are so afraid to punish a child today with the fear of someone reporting it as abuse! There is a difference, and we have forgotten what that is!! Don’t just say “ok” and go on. Do something about it! We are talking about our next generation, what will the world become if we don’t do what’s right!
A friend said, “People like that don’t “need” Jesus; they are content with what they are doing. We’re better off trying to help those that have a chance than those that have such hardened hearts there’s no breaking through. When you bring up Jesus to them they try to throw scripture at you about “judging” or “God said to eat from the earth and pot is grown from the earth so we are using God’s herbs”….They use the bible only to justify what they do but not to live by.”
And guess what? That’s exactly what the devil wants you to think. That’s what he does and he is building his own army! God put us on earth to honor him and save lives, to build his army! To prove to Satan that we the people can come together in the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ and fight!
If they have heard the name of Jesus and they don’t want to listen, then they have no chance for eternal life. But at least we did our job. If we can’t do it ourselves, it takes a certain type, to be at the wrong place at the right time, and if it’s not you, God will send an angel of his to fight for that life! We are to pray and ask God to send someone to go talk to them. Some will listen, some will not but at least we’ve done our job.
As a family here on earth we treasure our loved ones and fight for their well been. We are a family in God’s eyes and will be a family in his home and he treasures his loved ones, us! Why not treasure those who need us, our past experiences are to be used as a tool to inspire someone else and give hope. Treat everyone as a family, be friendly and bring them to Jesus.
Each time a new soul is born into the Kingdom of God, it’s almost like the birth of a child. Although the baby is delivered sometimes in pain, afterward the pain is forgotten in the delight of a new soul born into this World!–And the same joy, only greater, is experienced at the birth of a new spirit into the Kingdom of God! One saved soul makes all Heaven rejoice, and is certainly sufficient payment for all the hard work and sacrifices and a few little hard trials and tribulations that we may go through.
All Heaven rejoices and all the Angels rejoice more over one lost sheep that’s found, each soul saved, than over all the ninety-and-nine and all the rest who are already saved and rescued! (Lk.15:7)
If the Angels of Heaven rejoice over every soul that’s saved, they certainly must also rejoice over our obedience to God and our service for the Lord! When your time of reward and recognition comes, are the Heavens and the Angels of God going to jump for joy over your faithfulness and your diligent service for the Lord and your sacrificial giving?
Let’s come together as one and start living in the fear of the Lord and let the armor of the Lord be our shield…
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