Truth And Consequences

We live in a culture that tries to convince us that we can do it all. However, each of us only has one life to invest in what matters. Each of us is limited in the amount of time we can use to invest in the priorities of our lives. We have to choose what we will focus on—and our choices will have lasting consequences.

Pouring into the souls of our children, developing sharp minds, protecting them from the draw of culture, passing on faith—these do not come about by chance. God will hold us responsible for the ways we use our lives to cultivate the spiritual lives of our children.

Our hearts must be devoted to the stewardship of the young lives that have been entrusted into our hands. We cannot serve the world and God’s purposes.

He allows us free rein, the ability to ignore and go against biblical logic and wisdom, but we will usually be left to live with the consequences of unwise choices.

If children do not find stability, love, training, spiritual reality, purpose, and comfort in their own homes, they will look for them wherever they can find them. They will become like the places where they spend the most time and like the people they spend the most time with, because they are shaped by the culture in which they invest their hearts.

His Promises

Commit your actions to the LORD,

and your plans will succeed.

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Look straight ahead,

and fix your eyes on what lies before you.