This morning a lovely senior lady from our church stopped by my office with gifts for my children. As we talked she was moved to tears as she heard about our shift to prayer at New Minas Baptist Church on Wednesday nights. She was moved to tears in part because of her love for Jesus and her desire to follow Him. However her tears are mainly for her children. She raised her children in church and in Sunday School, she taught them good morals and yet now as adults, while they still show the good morals in their lives, they walked away from faith and from Jesus. She prays constantly, believing that they are not Christians and that they need Jesus. She still has hope that they will know Jesus. She does not understand why they have chosen to walk away from the faith that they were taught as children and youth.
To many times in the past few months and years I have heard that same story. To many times parents, who love and follow Jesus themselves, have told me stories of their children who are far from God now. These stories are from parents who are parenting now and watching their children struggle and from parents whose children are now adults who show little evidence of Jesus in their lives.
I am tired - tired of hearing these heartbreaking stories, and tired of the fear that these stories will become my own.
However, I am now filled with excitement and energy as I come to prayer. I look forward to what God will do as we truly repent [Psalm 51] and seek Him [Jeremiah 29]. We must raise a white flag of defeat - we cannot win the battle for our children on our own. They need Jesus, and so do we.
Join us for Wednesday Prayer at 630pm. Everyone is welcome.
