Thursday, October 30, 2008

Drugs will steal your future and everything that goes with it !

A recent 3rdDegree programme on eTV literally made me throw up. Debra Patta herself could not contain her disgust and disbelief in the results of her investigation into the drug scene in South Africa. A recent report indicated:
  • 1 in 3 boys and 1 in 5 girls have an alcohol or drug problem, and,
  • collectively, they spend over 7 billion Rand (not Zim Dollars) on alcohol and drugs each year! Here is that number again:
R7 000 000 000.00 - OR - 7 Billion Rands !!!!!

Now, just think about what we could have done with money like that:

  • Build 140000 RDP houses costing R50000.00 each,
  • Pay the annual school fees of R1500.00 for 4,6 million learners,
  • Pay the full university fees for three years for ALL matriculants in any one year (about 500000 of them every year)
  • Pay for 700 million (700 000 000) plates of food at R10.00 per plate and effectively provide one meal a day for a full year for 1,9 million (starving) children!
Yet, we allow the money to literally GO UP IN SMOKE leaving tens of thousands of young people's lives in ruins.

Say, NO to drugs and alcohol, and fulfill the purpose that God has placed and invested in your life. Don't let an unnecessary adventure result in your future being stolen from you.

You are more precious than you think . . . . .

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think it's very disturbing that our young people are turning to things like drug and alcohol instead of turning to a closer relationship with our Saviour. The question that must be asked, is how have we failed our young people in such a way that “forces” them to find comfort in something else. How have we as a Church not ministered to their needs. I feel that this is something that must spoken about and we must start taking steps into the right direction.

ShaƩ Benn

AnglicanYouthSA said...

Thanks, ShaƩ. Spot on. And the time is NOW!
The youth are faced with many options every day of their lives. The key is to lay a solid Biblical foundation against which they are able to evaluate every option before deciding on a particular action.
Let's lay that foundation - together.
Blessings. Tony