For those of you who have lost the respect and love of your children because you attempted to bring God's truth to them, know this..........you are not the only ones.
Many adult ungodly children have learned how to be disrespectful from the culture and from the school systems they were trained by.
Sadly too much of the self esteem teaching that created all this meanness seeped into the church and is now mainstream in nearly all churches these days.
Have you been cut off from the social media of your children? Count it a blessing instead of pinning away for them. What is going on in social media these days by many adult children who say they are Christians may very well grieve you.
Never in all my years of life have I seen so much disrespect and resistance to instruction and training as I have seen in our children's generation. I am 67 years old and almost no one treated their parents the way I see parents being treated now. Only those who were considered thugs and criminals were this way and they were rejected by the rest of the culture.
Now that we are living in a day when everything evil is being tolerated and honesty straight up is being disdained, even those who attend church every week are acting more like unsaved people than they do like a changed born again child of God.
The angst of the younger generation is becoming so overwhelming it leaves us with a sense of grief that they are missing the joy of the Lord and the sense of graciousness that should be present in every born again believer.
Even those who worked hard to train their children at home so they would be protected from the world are experiencing this disrespect and vitriol.
Parents are being treated as though they are stupid and worth nothing except to provide something these young people want. They will only love and help their parents when they are getting something out of it. I find this to be common and often without challenge from the parents.
There is a disdain for any advice or instruction on the part of the young people, that used to be valued according to the principles of the Bible.
Keep in mind that it is not you that they hate really, its that they just love themselves so much they have no room for loving you or God. Even those that say they love God only use Him the way they use their parents. The love of Christ does not show up in their lives, and happiness is only seen when they are getting their own way.
These young people are falsely judging their parents to justify their own anger and hatred.
Having said all that, there is hope, that is the more we seek Christ for truth the more we understand what is happening. Do not fear the young people reading this will become angry. The anger will prove the tenor of this post.
A humble and loving young person who has been acting this way will be sorrowful that they were exposed and they will repent. Those who maintain their anger and even become worse are showing us they are stubborn and refuse to repent and become born again.
Never fear telling the truth, the loving ones will repent and the angry stubborn ones will become even angrier.
It really is true that challenge and difficulty do not make the person, it only reveals them.
And yes!!! This is a strong rebuke to young people to repent from their sinful attitudes and begin seeking God to be cleansed.
1 John 1:9
"9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
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