We're parents who raise our children in fear, and all of the parents of the world can mind their own business, and we will mind ours.
During our first four childrens growing up years, we were mocked because we were so overly protective. None of our children were permitted to roam freely in the world, and were watched over continuously to make sure they did not stray. As they grew older, and their maturity level increased, the areas of the natural life they could participate in broadened, but we continued to watch and worry and pray as they were exposed to the wicked things in the world that could destroy them if care was not taken
Now, twenty years later, we're raising three more beautiful children of our LORD GOD, and guess what? We're even more protective today, as we homeschool them and watch over them and limit them to only the things we choose is good and righteous for them. They do not get to do many of the things the children of the world get to do, because their participation in those activities would bring harm to them.
Now before you start uttering that same mockery that we have heard so many times before that we are raising our children in fear, let me warn you...we are.
Where the children of the world can run free to the places of nature that make them happy, my children are restricted to the places where their spirit is fed. Where the natural children prosper and grow in the safety of a common world, our children are in danger of being hurt and changed in that same world. Where the "normal and free" children are not limited by rules or force, our children must abide by our rules established by us and the LORD God we serve.
It isn't fair. Sometimes it makes me sad that we have to be so protective, when the neighborhood children can run free at night, without supervision, and no worries from their parents about what they're doing. Sometimes it makes me angry that we live in a world that many would want great harm to come to our children, to destroy the things of God before they even develop.
Job was angry about the same thing...
7 ¶ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. 14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.” (Job 21:7-14 AV)
The wicked were safe from fear, because they did not have the rod of God upon them. They didn't have to live by His rules nor His discipline, and were not accountable to His Laws, thus, they had no fear, and were safe.
They could send their little children out like a flock of sheep, and the children could dance and sing and be free, and joy could result. They didn't have to worry about the wicked attacks coming to them, because they belonged to the world they danced in.
We and our children do not. We are raising them for our Kingdom, not the World that belongs to others. Our Kingdom of God, that will one day be established on a New Earth, where our children can finally run free and be able to experience those things that they missed doing in this life that might have elevated their soul even higher to Him. I have a feeling, it won't be many things missed, if any, as my children are blessed, prosperous and growing daily with the Things of God and His Way.
Bucker
During our first four childrens growing up years, we were mocked because we were so overly protective. None of our children were permitted to roam freely in the world, and were watched over continuously to make sure they did not stray. As they grew older, and their maturity level increased, the areas of the natural life they could participate in broadened, but we continued to watch and worry and pray as they were exposed to the wicked things in the world that could destroy them if care was not taken
Now, twenty years later, we're raising three more beautiful children of our LORD GOD, and guess what? We're even more protective today, as we homeschool them and watch over them and limit them to only the things we choose is good and righteous for them. They do not get to do many of the things the children of the world get to do, because their participation in those activities would bring harm to them.
Now before you start uttering that same mockery that we have heard so many times before that we are raising our children in fear, let me warn you...we are.
Where the children of the world can run free to the places of nature that make them happy, my children are restricted to the places where their spirit is fed. Where the natural children prosper and grow in the safety of a common world, our children are in danger of being hurt and changed in that same world. Where the "normal and free" children are not limited by rules or force, our children must abide by our rules established by us and the LORD God we serve.
It isn't fair. Sometimes it makes me sad that we have to be so protective, when the neighborhood children can run free at night, without supervision, and no worries from their parents about what they're doing. Sometimes it makes me angry that we live in a world that many would want great harm to come to our children, to destroy the things of God before they even develop.
Job was angry about the same thing...
7 ¶ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. 14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.” (Job 21:7-14 AV)
The wicked were safe from fear, because they did not have the rod of God upon them. They didn't have to live by His rules nor His discipline, and were not accountable to His Laws, thus, they had no fear, and were safe.
They could send their little children out like a flock of sheep, and the children could dance and sing and be free, and joy could result. They didn't have to worry about the wicked attacks coming to them, because they belonged to the world they danced in.
We and our children do not. We are raising them for our Kingdom, not the World that belongs to others. Our Kingdom of God, that will one day be established on a New Earth, where our children can finally run free and be able to experience those things that they missed doing in this life that might have elevated their soul even higher to Him. I have a feeling, it won't be many things missed, if any, as my children are blessed, prosperous and growing daily with the Things of God and His Way.
Bucker
1 comments:
Good on you. We pulled our children out of the school system soon after we became Christians as God opened up our eyes to the evils of the world enthrusted upon them at such a young and impressionable age. We identify with what you say here - even in our own church we have comments, from the younger generation (who know everything of course) who know nothing about our freedoms, Godly ones, and our duty as parents that God gave us to educate and love and nurture in HIS ways not the ways of the world. When they are solid and the seeds have taken good roots, then they are strong enough to be armed with the Truth; what a blessing it is to have our family back, to spend time out in the community and to spend time with like minded homeschooled families without moral confusion and wicked ways being upon them every day through lack of authority, respect and wisdom. Parents are the best teachers because they love their children and because God entrusted us with them; he owns them, the state doesn't, nor does the state teach them anything of God or His Holy Word which is so rich for life skills.
Post a Comment