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Am I Praying the Wrong Prayer for My Grandchildren?

Reflecting on the most wonderful visit from our children and grandchildren recently, I began praying for the grandchildren and asking our God to give them as good a world as we have had to grow up in. I don’t want them to have to pay so much of their wages in taxes that they can never find financial freedom. I don’t want them to be so overwhelmed by the philosophies of men and inundated with man’s idea of truth that they never know the truth that abides forever! I fear that our children and our children’s children have information overload. Common sense doesn’t count for much and it isn’t too common anymore.

I don’t want our grandchildren to go to bed at night worried about global warming or about being in the sunlight for ten minutes without sunscreen! I don’t want them to have to be afraid of smiling at a stranger. Most recently, one of our three- year -old granddaughters threw the entire preschool staff into a tizzy and caused quite a stir because she and another child were playing like they were changing each other’s diapers at playtime. Both come from families of four children and each had a one-month sibling at home. Imagine that they would be playing mommy and changing diapers!

I don’t want them to grow up afraid to live! I don’t want them to be exposed to constant sexual immorality and fornication on a daily basis. I don’t want them to have to constantly be ridiculed for believing in the inerrant Word of God. I want them to live in a country that believes the Bible is God’s Word and you don’t have to constantly be trying to prove it! You see, what I really want is to make it as easy for them as it has been for us.

I think I am praying the wrong prayer. We have lived in a time of freedom and prosperity without much persecution for our beliefs. Christians today have lived in a time in our country when most people believed that the Bible was the Word of God and have taken it for granted. Most have had the opportunity to work and to gain some measure of wealth. We have been free to express our beliefs. And we have become “neither cold nor hot” . . . . “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would wish that you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth,” (Revelation 3:15,16).

I am going to change my prayer. I am going to ask my God to give my grandchildren whatever it is they need to keep their hearts in love with Him and their focus on Heaven as their eternal home.

 

 

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