Faith Filled Family Magazine October 2016 | Page 27

Most of these children’s shows
use magic, and while most parents feel that it is innocent, it
really isn’t. You can argue that
they know the difference between what they watch on television from reality. Yet it isn’t that
aspect that should be the most
concerning. How many of you
“played out” these characters?
Pretended to be them? All of us!
Your children are speaking out
those words, those spells, and
pretending to be those characters- good and bad. Our words
have power! What words are
they speaking over their lives by
pretending only to have to recant
when they are older? Some of
these shows create a fascination
with the occult by incorporating
magic- whether it is good or bad.
Magic takes the focus off of God,
and tells young minds that they
can control their destiny. This is
simply not true- only God knows
our future, and He ordained it.
The results are children that are
far from God, or worse, begin a
fascination with the occult. In a
child’s world, they can be anyone- even a witch.
Children’s cartoons are geared
towards magic.
Probably at
least 75% of all shows contain
magic at some point. A resurrected “Smurfs”, which many of
us grew up with contains magic.
Gargamel is continually casting
spells towards the smurfs as he
is a wizard.
What about Wizards of Waverly
Place? Lots of spells going on
there! Sabrina, the teenage witch
(in reruns), does the same thing.
What about classics (wouldn’t
think that anything bad would

be there)? Bewitched (sorcery,
incantations, witchcraft), Adam’s
family (fascination with darkness
and monsters), I Dream of Jeannie (mysticism, eastern philosophy) are all introductions into the
occult. They are funny, and because they invoke humor, they
seem harmless, but they are absolutely demonic in origin.

false, doesn’t apply, or justifying
it as “they are just children”.

As parents, we are tasked with
our children’s spiritual well-being. We are to teach them the
Word of God- no one else. We
choose what they listen to. We
cultivate what they say, and what
they become.
We influence
them, ultimately, and have the fiParent’s need to ask themselves nal say as to what they do while
whether they truly believe the they are children. Are we conplay is harmless. If you believe fident that they will make godly
the Bible when it says that we choices despite being confrontare given authority, and author- ed by the lure of evil? The tempity comes from the spoken word, tation is simply too great. You
AND that God spoke the world cannot guarantee that the occult
into existence, AND that life and will not have an effect on a susdeath come from the power of ceptible, impressionable, naïve,
the tongue, how can you justify young mind. Children believe
your children speaking out these almost anything (remember concharacters? That is like deny- vincing your younger siblings of
ing that our words have power, things that weren’t true?). It is
and telling God that His Word is our job to protect them.