What do you choose at the expense of your or someone else’s child? You choose to always be angry? You choose to always want more things? You choose to ignore them? You choose what lens they look through to see life is. They don’t get to choose what lens they get, you do.
Just this past week I have seen so many post about things that effect children. As an adult I don’t think we think about what we do effects the little ones as much as it does. Today I saw something that just broke my heart. I saw a post about not giving your luggage to Goodwill, make it available to a foster child. They are often asked to pack their personal items in a trash bag. Can you imagine telling a child that everything you have in the world that means something to you needs to be put in something we use to store trash? You know life is not something that comes wrapped in a pretty box, with a BIG bow on it. Most of the time it feels like we are being handed a trash bag. You can put a bow on top of the trash bag, but it is STILL a trash bag. Why do we do that to our children. They are the future of this country. I read something today in the Bible in Joshua 24:27 NLT27 Joshua said to all the people, “This stone has heard everything the Lord said to us. It will be a witness to testify against you if you go back on your word to God.” When I read this, I thought to myself a stone will be a witness…well our children are a witness of everything they have heard. We need to stop treating children as if they are so little it doesn’t matter. My 5 year old always says this: “When I get bigger”. you see she thinks as she gets bigger she can do the things I do. Is she right? Of course she is right, she can do what I do. Is that a good or a bad thing? I have to ask you why does this generation not know the things that God has done? We have not told them or SHOWN them. You see I SAW the power of God hit people and change their lives. Literally, legs have grown, drunks no longer can stand the taste of alcohol, smokers can’t stand the smell or taste of it. Our children only know what we tell them, or allow them to see and hear. When they get older they can choose for themselves what they want to learn. However what do we have to help us remember what God has done, or what a mighty country this was, how we FOUGHT for freedom. How we used to pray before every meal, thanking God we had food on our table and in our bellies.
If we treat our children like trash, we ourselves will become a country of trash bags. We will not matter to others, we will smell of rot and will be discarded.
I see my great grandson TAKE MY HAND and want to follow me everywhere. I want to take him to places that will enrich him, teach him about God, teach him that he matters, teach him that he is loved, teach him that I will protect him NO MATTER WHAT.
God wants us to give him our hand and let him lead us. We just have to reach up and give it to him. God will whisper in your ear, follow me and I will give you LIFE. Follow me and I will protect you, I will love you, I will make you feel safe.
Our children need to know they are here for a purpose and It is not for us to torment them, abandon them, write them off. You see from birth, they want to know someone cares enough not to throw them into the trash.
Believe in Possibilities 