Releasing Your Family to God's Destiny
"Oh, I wonder what awesome plans God has for your life!
When you grow up, will you do whatever GOD wants you to do?"
In a world that is increasingly self-seeking, self-centered, and self-absorbed,
the answers are consistently more egocentric-
"a movie star," "a rock star," "a dance star."
Even within the church,
this present generation is fixated on obtaining fame, wealth, and pleasure.
But shouldn't we be encouraging our children's willingness to surrender to God's plans for their futures?
David Shibley clearly addresses the current crisis within the church.
"We whine, ‘I just want to know my purpose; I've got to reach my destiny." We race all over the country to attend ‘destiny conferences,' and we devour tapes and books on ‘reaching your full potential . . . ‘ Even cloaking our self-centeredness in Christian garb and jargon cannot cover the nakedness of this cult of self that has infested much of the church . . . How can we ever hope to discover our purpose in the earth with little or no interest in His purpose?"
"Every day, approximately 150,000 people die; the majority of these people are not saved, and far too many have never even heard God's Good News of salvation. How can we sit back and hear the Gospel again and again, while many are still waiting to hear it for the first time? [adapted from a mission quote by Oswald J. Smith]. Today's Christian families desperately need to remember that our purpose in this world involves so much more than what we can attain for ourselves. We're here to reach the lost."
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