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.
