I've been encouraged through this process by the idea that, if at her age she can learn to recognise and fight the tactics of the evil one - she will be a mighty warrior. Some of us (read: Me) are only learning this now and have much ground to take back. May she not lose ground, because she learns how to take it and hold it while she is still young.
The teenage years are renown for being hard, tumultuous times, while our kids discover who they are, where they fit, and how their lives are going to impact the world around them. These are pretty major questions and they come at a time when there is almost an expectation for teens to rebel and do crazy stuff - stuff that can really mess with the answers to those questions.
So, as a generation of parents, are we just completely sucked in by an enemy who only wants to rob, kill and destroy?
If he can mess up a young persons developing identity, value, and purpose - he can go a long way to destroying that life entirely.
How many young people with no sense of identity, value, and purpose, are ending their lives before they've even begun? Is it just co-incidence? Or are they being picked off at a vulnerable time of their life, by an enemy whose ultimate goal is death?
If no one is speaking purpose and life into our young people - then they live in a vacuum, hearing only what the world wants them to hear. "You're not important." " You're a reject." " You're no good at anything." "No one will ever love you." "The world would be better off without you."
Who is going to tell our kids they're worth it? That they have so much value someone was prepared to die for them? That their life was planned and it has hope and a future? That their life is a masterpiece, designed by a God who wants to shower them with love and goodness?
If our kids are not being told the truth, all they will hear are the lies.
Very insightful, well said Melanie
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