If I knew that looking out into my future that every time “it was dark” and I was “at my most vulnerable and defenseless”…that…I would be “on my own”…that God would leave me to handle whatever came my way on my own…that if I was uncomfortable, in pain, scared, or just craving His presence, that if I cried out to Him that He would NOT come…to “teach me how to handle things w/out Him”…I’d not even want to go into my future I’d want to die because it would be terrifying. I’d never want to take any chances…all I’d want to do “is sleep”…
To think that I might cry out to Him for whatever reason and He’d ignore me? Isn’t that what manna was all about to teach us to never think we can do it on our own? How do we teach that to our kids before they can speak? How do we teach our kids even from day one to NEVER lean on their own understanding…never to depend on themselves to always look outside themselves and specifically to God…And, how do we show them that no matter what that God IS there?
I believe our current culture of “independent” people who do not look to God testifies to what this popular teaching in the last 50 years has done to our entire culture. That to leave our children to cry and not attend to “teach them to be independent” does just that. It them leads them to look “inside themselves” as the only source of constancy and safety…the only one they can truly trust…which is one of the biggest things that’s led people away from God in the USA…the foundation of “New Age Thinking”…
FAR from “Growing Kids God’s Way”…this is “Growing Kids Away From God”…
