Should We Train Our
Children to be...
NORMAL
OR
SUPERNATURAL
By John Lysaught
L
et’s face it; the world
we live in is horrible. I’m
talking about the people
and society who are led
by Satan and are not followers
of Christ. It’s as if we are aliens
on this planet. We are strangers in a foreign land. We are
the exception, not the rule, in a
society that does not believe,
even just a hair of belief, in our
Savior Jesus Christ. Followers
of Jesus don’t want to be stuck
in the midst of this situation, and
yet, here we are. Day in and
day out from waking until slumbering, we are berated by the
world, Satan’s playground where
everything contrary to God’s will
is embraced and celebrated.
Even many of our own family
members, neighbors, friends,
and coworkers are fully enveloped in living a life contrary to
God. Pragmatism and self-edification rules the day in modern
society and the popular motto
seems to be, “If it feels good do
it.” The world’s motives are not
compelled by salvation by any
sense of the word. The world’s
motives appear to stem from
a desire to force people away
from God through manipulation
and propaganda so that they
might conform to the will of society rather than God’s. The world
promotes the lie that humans are
gods. They don’t know that God’s
ways are true and the world’s
ways are false. The world leads
to destruction but Christ leads
salvation. As Christian adults,
we see this very clearly- it’s a
battle between good and evil.
We can see past the clutter of
propaganda thrown at us. We
don’t have blinders on. We can
see the truth versus the falsity
of evil—even when disguised as
good-- being flouted in the face
of the lost and naive. Our children however may not be able
to always discern between good
and not so obvious evil. Young
minds, lacking maturity, while
often showing pure and uncomplicated faith, may still fall for the
ways of the enemy and become
corrupted by those adverse to
Christianity.
As I see it, the most impressionable minds are those of children.
I’m looking at school aged children up to and in some cases,
including college. These young
minds are so very impressionable. The educational system is