Keepers At home Part 9: Farming them out

On the heels of my last post, it strikes me when a parent says "they have no idea where that came from". We have all said it at least once, probably LOTS more than that. Lol

But I know the answer as we all do I think, in our hearts. It comes from one (or both) of only two places. In the home. Or outside the home.

If we are raising our children to the Glory of God inside the home, then they are not getting worldly behavior from there. Even the occasional outburst from a parent will usually not be influential enough for them to carry outside the home because they will be immersed in Godliness most of the time and will know better. (It is a humbling thing for me to lose my patience and know that the kids know that I have done a wrong thing. Godly kids can even hone you!)

So that leaves the dreaded alternative....outside the home. Now, we cannot keep them from everything, nor should we. Let us just qualify that straight off. But we are to shelter them, sheperd them, until they are able to stand on their own... So where are they getting it?

Brownies, boyscouts, school, other's homes, youth group, children's church, anywhere we farm them out to where we have no supervision. I am at a loss to understand why we farm them out so young. If they are not the ones doing the influencing, then they are too young to go. I know more Christians with worldly kids whose homes I am somewhat confident holds God in high esteem. When they are young and have not yet fully developed a Christian World View and we send them off regularly to places where the world has seeped in, you may fully expect the world to seep all the way into your own children.

When they are old enough and well trained enough and have the Living God within them, when they go out, they shall be far less likely to absorb and then repeat sinful behavior. DON'T send your kids out too early. Like the disciples of Christ, who were taught, trained and immersed in Christ and then sent out, we too must teach, train and immerse until they are ready to go out and make a difference in the world instead of the world making a difference in them.

It makes no sense to have to train bad behavior OUT of a child. We are to train Godly behavior INTO them and then release them to make disciples of all the nations. We do not pollute our kids with drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes only to then train them not to do it. Why then, do we pollute them with the world which is far worse and then try to train it out of them?

Salt flavors nothing while still in a salt flat. It must be harvested, cleansed and prepared. It then is sent out to flavor the world!