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- We must
teach our children to resist the things they should not see and
hear.
When we were children, there was
no opportunity at all to see the things our children see every
day on the television.
When we were children, no one would
be brought into the school to discuss sexuality. In fact, they
would have been ridden out on a rail.
When I was in the first grade in
the Chicago school system, the Bible was read each day, and the
teacher prayed. Are things different now?
But those were not the good
old days, and satan was not more dormant then than now. Human
nature was and is the same and so is the Lord.
- The difference
is that the public schools were set up to support godliness,
and that is no longer the case. I do not believe that the answer
is to pull all of our children out of school, although in some
situations that is the only solution.
The better thing is to train little
soldiers and to allow the Lord to build heavenly character with
choices that are made each day and each hour.
The most important thing a child
can know after he is born again is what the bible says about
everything.
My strong suggestion to parents
today is that you have a time in the morning when you sing and
pray together, and each person says his verse around the breakfast
table. The morning devotions can be so permeating because in
addition to the other teaching he gets and living he sees at
home, the child bears with him the environment he has just left.
There is nothing you can say to
persuade me this can not be done. If you say there is no time
in the mornings, your mornings must be restructured. If your
TV went on the blink there would be much more morning time.
Our children need to see that a
Christian soldier must not compromise, and they need to see
it at home.
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