The Lord calls the devil the “father of lies,” and everyone that rejects Christ and His truth has Satan as their spiritual father. Many truths in the Bible are hard to understand or even accept without the indwelling Holy Spirit, but before we reject what the Bible says we need to talk to someone who has personally experienced what God has said.
I had to apologize to my adult first-born son for not seeing what God was trying to show me in His Word about my children when he was in the third grade of public school. I believe this was the time when the public schools were beginning to teach more than they should, and the Lord was trying to get this across to me – through my son since I wasn’t getting it from my reading in the Bible.
The school bus stopped right out in front of our home where our son got on it, but this particular day the bus didn’t stop. I went out and found him hiding around the side of our home. I asked him why he didn’t get on the bus and he told me he didn’t want to go to school. I asked him why but he couldn’t give me a reason, he was just afraid to go. I kept him home that day.
I had to take my crying son to school the next day and walk him up to his classroom teacher asking her if she knew why he was afraid to come to school. (He had never done this before.) I asked her if she knew anything that had happened to him in the classroom or out on the playground. She didn’t have a clue. Every morning my husband and I prayed for him, over him, and to the Lord about him. We spoke God’s Word over him; we did everything that we knew to do to calm his fear.
The principal even checked in with the bus driver and there was nothing we could find that could’ve happened on the bus. The principal and I agreed that I would drive him to school and leave him with her and then she would take him to his class after he had calmed down. This went on for weeks. I can’t tell you how this broke my heart to have to leave our son in that place day after day. But, why did I believe I had to? Why was I convinced that “public” school was where all four of our children should be?
After some weeks our son didn’t fight it anymore, or cry about going to school. We never figured out what was wrong that he would carry on that way. It was a complete mystery to us all.
About thirty years later the Lord revealed it to me: God was trying to show me that I was to teach them at home. So I asked the Lord why He didn’t just come right out and say that to me, back then?!
Like most Christian mothers who still have the worldly culture in them that they grew up with, I needed God’s wisdom to raise my children up for Him. When the public schools no longer want children to learn or talk about the God of the Bible, and don’t allow any praying in the Name of Jesus – what should you do with and for the children God has put in your care?
I prayed for all my children as I sent them off to the public school each day. I was ignorant of what God wanted me to protect in my children. Children will believe anything they are taught until they have reason not to believe what they were taught. No wonder the devil is after children. It’s important that a child is fed the truth at home so they recognize lies and false information.
In the public schools today we have all kinds of people teaching children: homosexuals, pedophiles, atheists, communists, Satan worshipers, etc.; teachers with strong immoral and political agendas being pushed on kids. Public schools are to teach children the basics: reading, writing and arithmetic; the skills they need to go into their own interests of work and to become “skilled” in what they enjoy doing. Employers are finding less and less competent skilled employees – while employers are required to pay their employees more and more.
As a young mom I didn’t understand the right and the requirement that God gave parents to teach and raise their own children, or at least to make sure that those who are teaching your children every day are God-fearing, truthful about God and what He says is right and wrong.
It wasn’t until our third-born child (daughter) was in junior high school that I understood what my Father required of me, and I began home-schooling her and then our son who was two years younger than her. Our daughter bloomed once I took her out of that unholy system of education. It was extra work for me each day, but it was a good trade off. She has home-schooled her own children and so has our younger son’s wife their children.
If the school is teaching that which is contrary to the Word of God and contrary to your instructions for your children, then ask God to show you His way of escaping this destructive system and work with others of like mind and heart for the good foundation your children need. When they are older they can be educated in their own interests without compromising the truth and their faith in God.
Proverbs 23:15-18 “My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart also will be glad; and my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right and true. Do not let your heart envy sinners, but live in the fear of the LORD always. Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.”
The ideas and philosophies being fed to children and university students today is clearly the government requiring their teachers to assume the role of parents in teaching and training up children in the way the government wants to use it’s citizens. Sheer evil! As God’s people we need to do what is right for our children so they grow up in the truth and love of God, in the way we were created to think and live eternally with our Father God.