An example of what
not to do

Earlier this year, as Brazilian press reported with natural fanfare, occurred in the city of Maringa-PR a deplorable fact and doubly unfortunate, first because it was a group of young people, and second because these young people belong to families socially situated, which departs from the outset, the idea that those individuals would be moved by an act of desperation.

We refer to prison in the act of 11 high school students accused of attempted fraud in the exam to get into Medical Center University of Maringá (Cesumar). That was in January this year.

According to the news, the mobile phones which were taken from them had received by texting, all answers of the exam. In addition to phones, the young involved were using electronic points to receive the answers. The confirmation came after they were subjected to metal detection device.

In the text message which contained the answers there were codes. "One candidate explained the codes. She said that each number meant a letter", the person responsible for the case, Leandro Roque Munin, told to reporters.

Made the indictment, some of the 11 young involved the police revealed that they would pay ten thousand reais for the answers, while others said the price would be thirty thousand reais, payment to be made later, in case of approval in the exam.

When you say that intellectual progress is not followed immediately by an equal advance in the moral field, this is something we all know, regardless their belief, and the fact occurred in Maringá is, accordingly, further proof of that.

The use of advanced technology for transmitting information, someone who knew the subject and the participants’ own decision to seek the path of fraud to become doctors, here is revealing details of a moral poverty that causes pain and not only indignation.

Add to that the very participation of fraudsters’ parents, since we know that the age at which a young man seeking to entry into the college is very difficult to have it, without help from parents, the amount mentioned.

We are in a time that it is time for everyone to understand that in the road of life are, as the Gospel teaches, two paths: the path of perdition and the path of righteousness.

The first is attractive, full of facilities and quick fixes and illusions. The second is difficult, full of challenges and difficulties.

Try to get into a college by way of fraud, harming the other candidates who struggled, who have studied, it is not, let’s face it, the way that a reasonable person should follow, because everything we do in our life generate consequences, both for good or for evil.

In every action has a reaction, those who kill by the sword will die by the sword, who strikes iron with iron will be hurt, sowing is free but harvest is mandatory, to each one according to his works. These rules so well known, laid by God, direct wisely the script, leases, the alternatives of life that seem so confused and improvised, but which follow a meticulous plan and an order that cannot be understood by materialists and by those who think that money is everything.

Paul wrote to Galatians: "Be not deceived: God doesn’t let be mocked; because for whatsoever a man sows, that also shall reap. For what it is sow to your flesh, the flesh shall reap corruption; but what it sows to the Spirit, from Spirit will reap eternal life." (Galatians 6:7-8.)

That unfortunate episode in Maringá could be for us and for our children an example of what not to do if we really want to reach the goal for which God created us.