Pastor’s Perspective

WEEKLY DEVOTION

November 10th, 2024

LIVE WITH UNWAVERING FAITH IN THIS FLAWED WORLD

As the principal of our amazing school, every year feels like the world has been turned upside down.

All around us, evil is called good, and good is called evil. Our culture tells us right and wrong are relative. It rejects the objective standard of Truth for a much more convenient and subjective standard of “your truth.” And while it preaches tolerance, this worldview insists that everyone conform to its secular ideology.

So as parents, how do we raise children who are steadfast in their faith when culture relentlessly seeks to deceive and confuse them?

In the times of the early Church, the Apostle Paul was in a similar situation with the church in Philippi. In Philippians 4:1, Paul lovingly encouraged the church to be steadfast in the Lord.

In the verses that follow, Paul directed them to think about “whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise” (Philippians 4:8).

Essentially, Paul called these believers to be steadfast in their faith by developing godly character and conduct — the results of pursuing biblical wisdom.

In today's culture, parents might follow the same strategy when it comes to parenting children. For our children to live with unwavering faith in this flawed world, we must guide them to consciously cultivate biblical wisdom and discernment.

After all, we have been given our children for such a time as this.