It was a rainy early morning and people complain but You give it all because we need it all. It may seem inconvenient and messy but it is life-giving as You have ordained! Thank You, Father, for meeting our needs even amongst our complaints.
Luke 1:66 (<<click to read the passage)
“What will this child turn out to be?”
Wow! What a loaded question! And it is applicable not only to John but to all children! It is a question full of possibility…full of potential! And for that matter, it is potential for good and bad.
As a school bus driver, I have the privilege of interacting with children almost every day! Teachers do, janitors do and school administrators do. I would challenge you to daily pray for each of us.
There are kids on my bus that come from wonderful homes! Moms and dads, just moms, just dads, grandmothers, aunts, and uncles. The kids are happy and eager for the life that is ahead of them.
Others live in situations that are challenging to say the least. Many live in almost impossible situations… Some struggle just to make it through one more day. Many of their lives are filled with landmines around which they must carefully maneuver. The slightest misstep and there could be devastating results.
But we must remember that wonderful or challenging, their homes contribute to their development but do not necessarily commit them to a predetermined outcome. Each of us comes to the point where we must make our own decisions about who and what we will be.
Just because we are raised in a stable and affirming environment doesn’t guarantee that we will perpetuate that in our own lives. How many families have been torn apart because a child has been lured into an obsession and eventual addiction to drugs?
And for that matter, how many “success” stories do we hear of individuals who refused to be chained to the horrid examples set before them in their youth and pushed themselves to overcome and impact the world in a wonderful way with their personal contributions?
Regardless, I choose to deliberately invest my life into the lives of the children (and adults, for that matter) that I interact with in my life. For who knows what this child will turn out to be?
Oct 16th, 2019, Wed, 1:08 pm
